Vakhtin, Nikolai (2005) The Russian Arctic between Missionaries and Soviets: The Return of Religion, Double Belief, or Double Identity? In: Rebuilding Identities. Pathways to Reform in Post-Soviet Siberia. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin, pp. 27-38.
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The present article is a revised version of a paper presented at the conference State Religion and Folk Belief held in 1998 at the University of Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is in response to the questions formulated by Dr. James D. Tracy about the relationship between state-sanctioned religion and popular belief. Should these two forms of belief be treated as antagonistic, or are they complementary forms of common devotion? If neither of the two extreme views is adequate, then what can be said of the links between the two forms of spiritual response to the challenges of the environment? I would like to comment on this dilemma from the perspective of an anthropologist with 25 years of research experience in the Russian Far North among the indigenous population of Chukotka, Kamchatka and eastern Yakutia. The situation I describe here is peculiar because, in this case, the state religion was introduced into the area from outside by an ethnically and culturally different group, and clashes with the indigenous set of “popular beliefs.”
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | state-sanctioned religion, popular belief, double identity, Chukotka, Alaska, spiritual vacuum, shamanism |
| Subjects: | B Mission theology/theory > Identity issues C Types of Christian Ministry > Missionaries G Christian traditions/Denominations > Eastern Orthodox G Christian traditions/Denominations > Pentecostal |
| Divisions: | Former Soviet Union > Russian Federation |
| Depositing User: | Katharina Penner |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Oct 2024 06:58 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Oct 2024 06:58 |
| URI: | https://ceeamsprints.osims.org/id/eprint/3035 |
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