EASTER AND CHRISTMAS CUSTOMS AND TRADITIONS IN SOVIET SECULAR SOCIETY
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DOI: 10.31773/2078-1768-2019-47-42-48.
Article ID in the RSCI: 37531564
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Information about authors: Tsyplakov Dmitriy Anatolyevich, PhD in Philosophy, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of Department of Church Theology, Novosibirsk Orthodox Theological Seminary (Ob, Russian Federation). E-mail: tsypl@ngs.ru Tsyplakova Svetlana Mikhaylovna, PhD on Culturology, Associate Professor of Department of Librarianship and Sociocultural Activity, Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation). E-mail: ipmmx@yandex.ru
Annotation: The article dialed Easter and Christmas customs and traditions in Russian society. Modern Russian society in the aspect of religious culture has emerged as a result of complex processes of elimination of religion. However, even in the Soviet period, it is impossible to designate a society as non-religious. The reason for this is that, historically, faith has entered and is part of the structure of the world of folk customs and traditions. Consideration of this factor is needed when describing Russian culture, as well as in religious studies, sociological and historical research works. This publication reveals Easter and Christmas customs and traditions in folk culture during the Soviet era. The text analyzes the structure of the living world of our contemporaries, based on the analysis of biographies. The biographies were gathered from respondents who lived during the Soviet period. Born mainly in the countryside, they went to the churches in childhood. In the atheistic situation of the Soviet period, they preserved religious customs and traditions, as described in their interviews. The analysis of the interviews made it possible to draw remarkable conclusions regarding the existence of religion in society. Folk customs and traditions retained the religious component. Easter and Christmas, especially in the countryside, continued to be celebrated through folk and religious rites. Religion led to controversies in the public sphere. The last decades’ defining moment of returning the religion to the living world of the society of “religious renaissance” was connected with the religious customs and traditions. The article explicates those traditions of the past, which determined the modern matrix of the religious culture of Russia; this explication is based on a unique empirical material.
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DOI: 10.31773/2078-1768-2019-47-42-48.
Article ID in the RSCI: 37531564
Article file: Download
Information about authors: Tsyplakov Dmitriy Anatolyevich, PhD in Philosophy, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of Department of Church Theology, Novosibirsk Orthodox Theological Seminary (Ob, Russian Federation). E-mail: tsypl@ngs.ru Tsyplakova Svetlana Mikhaylovna, PhD on Culturology, Associate Professor of Department of Librarianship and Sociocultural Activity, Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation). E-mail: ipmmx@yandex.ru
Annotation: The article dialed Easter and Christmas customs and traditions in Russian society. Modern Russian society in the aspect of religious culture has emerged as a result of complex processes of elimination of religion. However, even in the Soviet period, it is impossible to designate a society as non-religious. The reason for this is that, historically, faith has entered and is part of the structure of the world of folk customs and traditions. Consideration of this factor is needed when describing Russian culture, as well as in religious studies, sociological and historical research works. This publication reveals Easter and Christmas customs and traditions in folk culture during the Soviet era. The text analyzes the structure of the living world of our contemporaries, based on the analysis of biographies. The biographies were gathered from respondents who lived during the Soviet period. Born mainly in the countryside, they went to the churches in childhood. In the atheistic situation of the Soviet period, they preserved religious customs and traditions, as described in their interviews. The analysis of the interviews made it possible to draw remarkable conclusions regarding the existence of religion in society. Folk customs and traditions retained the religious component. Easter and Christmas, especially in the countryside, continued to be celebrated through folk and religious rites. Religion led to controversies in the public sphere. The last decades’ defining moment of returning the religion to the living world of the society of “religious renaissance” was connected with the religious customs and traditions. The article explicates those traditions of the past, which determined the modern matrix of the religious culture of Russia; this explication is based on a unique empirical material.
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