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Locally Venerated Orthodox Saints in Russia in the End of the 1920s - Early 1930s (based on Ethnographic Expeditions)

Year: 2021

Type: article

Abstract: The article examines the study of the veneration of locally revered saints by Soviet ethnographers in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The expeditions were carried out by the staff of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, the Ethnographic Department of the Russian Museum, the State Academy of the History of Material Culture, the Society of Local History and the Union of Militant Atheists. Ethnographers showed interest in the study of local cults of saints, striving not so much for historical studies of the veneration of saints in Russia, as for the anthropological study of the syncretic features of the worship of saints, in which folk ideas and pre-Christian practices in the form of so-called “Orthodox paganism” were preserved to the greatest extent.

Source: Study of Religion

DOI: 10.22250/2072-8662.2021.3.5-14

Author: MARIANNA M. SHAKHNOVICH

Institution: St Petersburg University

Language: English

Topic: Soviet and Russian History

Subfield: Political Science and International Relations

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Russian Science Foundation

Award: G1494922544