Note on the Romuva Movement in Lithuania
Note on the Romuva Movement in Lithuania

Author(s): Massimo Introvigne
Subject(s): Ethnohistory, Theology and Religion, Ethnic Minorities Studies, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Note; Romuva; Movement; Lithuania; Druidism; Tengrism; Reactivations; Ancie; Spiritualities; Religions; Identity; Politics; Taaraism;
Summary/Abstract: Romuva is the name of the largest European ‘ethnic religion’. The name is already a problem. Peter of Duisburg (14th century) mentions it in 1326 in his Chronicon Terrae Prussiae as the still existing mysterious centre of the ancient Baltic religion, whose leader, called Krivis, had as much authority in the region as the Pope in Rome (whose name, the chronicler assured, was ‘Romuva’, which thus came from ‘Rome’).

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