The Occult Underground of Late Soviet Russia

Birgit Menzel

doi:10.1163/15700593-13130205

The Occult Underground of Late Soviet Russia

Aries ◽

10.1163/15700593-13130205 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 269-288 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Birgit Menzel

Keyword(s):

New Age ◽

Soviet Russia

Der Aufsatz bietet einen Überblick über verschiedene Strömungen des okkulten Untergrunds im spätsowjetischen Russland, insbes. im Milieu der literarischen Bohème, in und außerhalb von wissenschaftlichen Institutionen und in der volkstümlichen bzw. alternativen Gesundheit. Einflüsse östlicher Philosophie und Religion werden diskutiert, Probleme der Terminologie, Einflüsse und Wechselbeziehungen zum westlichen New Age.

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Ancient Wisdom, Stigmatised Knowledge, and Sacred Landscapes: Ontologies and Epistemologies of New Age Culture in Post-Soviet Russia

Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics ◽

10.2478/jef-2021-0014 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

pp. 19-24

Author(s):

Alexander Panchenko

Keyword(s):

Basic Research ◽

New Age ◽

German Research Foundation ◽

Sacred Landscapes ◽

Anthropological Study ◽

Section Deal ◽

Introductory Paper ◽

Religious Cultures ◽

Soviet Russia ◽

Global And Local

Abstract The four articles in this section deal with anthropological study of New Age beliefs and practices in post-Soviet Russia. They are in part the result of a joint German–Russian research project titled New Religious Cultures in Late Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia: Ideology, Social Networks, Discourses, supported by the German Research Foundation and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research. In this introductory paper I will briefly discuss the principal outcomes of this research as well as general analytical issues related to the field of New Age studies both in global and local (post-Soviet) contexts.

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