Самоидентификация славянских язычников: социальный портрет, государство и образ лидера (по данным полевых исследований)
Identification of the Slavic Pagans: Social Portrait, State and Leader's Image According to Field Studies

Summary/Abstract: The study is based on data derived during the of questioning the ordinary members of modern pagan communities. From 17 to June 23, 2014 members of the research laboratory «New religious movements in modern Russia and Europe,» Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University Kozma Minin conducted a survey with the the ordinary members of modern pagan communities who gathered to celebrate Ivan Kupala festival. This article shows the results of the «factual» questionnaire block. The purpose of block was, first, to determine the status of the community attending the Ivan Kupala celebration, and secondly, to determine the religious views of representatives of paganism the 21th century. The article also discusses the data from the «institutional» block. The main objectives of the research question block N 2 is to identify functional as the pagan community as a whole, and individual community leaders in particular. A special place «of institutional» block is the question of the prospects and forms of interaction of modern pagans with the state institutions. Based on these data, the authors analyze the religious and organizational identity neo-pagans, perspectives and forms of interaction «Rodnovers» with state institutions, considered a functional way of the pagan leaders.

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