Title of the article:

PAGAN MANIFESTATION OF THE XXIst CENTURY (2022: Results and Perspectives) Article II.

Author(s):

Shizhensky, R.V.

Information about the author/authors

Roman V. Shizhensky — PhD in History, Assistant Professor, Head of the Laboratory of Religious Studies “North-West”, The Higher School of Philosophy, History and Social Sciences, Baltic Federal University, Chernyshevskogo St., 56A, 236022 Kaliningrad, Russia; Associate Professor of the Department of Political Sciences, The Institute of International Relations and World History, Lobachevsky University, Ulyanova St., 2, 603005 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8765-2241
E-mail: heit@inbox.ru

Section

Theory and history of culture

Year

2024

Volume

Vol. 72

Pages

pp. 52–63

Received

July 31, 2023

Approved after reviewing

January 21, 2024

Date of publication

June 25, 2024

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2024-72-52-63

Index UDK

299.572(470)

Index BBK

86.39

Acknowledgements: This research was supported by the Russian Federal Academic Leadership Program “Priority 2030” at the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University.

Abstract

Slavic paganism of the last third of 20th — first quarter of 21st century is a religious phenomenon with an established history and a specific set of methodical recommendations for “survival” in a hostile (less neutral) environment, replenishment of the ranks of neophytes, creation of a new community, private references: priests, soldiers, family, social, economic and other. Features of pagan manifestation, for the first time mentioned in the program statements of A.A. Dobrovolsky (Dobroslav), were supplemented and adapted in accordance with actual trends by ideologues of the “second” and “third” waves.
The Young Pagan Collective “teaching manual” includes prescriptions concerning self-development, nature centrism, concepts of counteracting external threats, the attitude towards state power, author’s vision of solving problems of national and racial issues. The set of existing issues has made adjustments to the internal program of actions. The creation of specialized information resources “Red Tape” and “Xenophobia”, containing data on persecutions of representatives of the worldview under study should be considered as the climax response to the challenges of paganism. The proposed paper is based on the answers of leaders of the pagan microworld to the question: “What line of issues and challenges is now existing before the Slavic paganism of the post-millennium?”. According to the analysis of respondents' data, the most urgent problems of the ethno-oriented variant of the movement include the categories of endemic complications (external negative factor), resulting in emergence of phenomena of pagan self-isolation and nativist “inquisition”.

Keywords

Modern Slavic Paganism, Manifestation, Ideologue, Survey, Community, Problems and Challenges, Self-reflection.

Reference

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