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Popular Religion in Russia

Popular Religion in Russia :'Double Belief' and the Making of an Academic Myth

Format : Hardback
Publisher : Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN : 9780415317719
Publication Year : 2007
Language : English

Dispels the view that paganism survived in Russia alongside Orthodox Christianity, demonstrating that 'double belief', "dvoeverie", is in fact an academic myth. This volume shows how the concept of "dvoeverie" arose with nineteenth-century scholars obsessed with the Russian 'folk' and was perpetuated as a propaganda tool in the Soviet period.