Old Believers in the national contexts of the Balkans and the Baltic States
https://doi.org/10.28995/2658-4158-2021-2-12-25
Abstract
The author considers the current situation with Russian Old Believers in the Balkans and the Baltic States by analyzing two aspects in the development of the Old Believers Diaspora development in the context of the membership of some Balkan and Baltic countries in the European Community: 1) Old Believers as Russian minority living in the “new” European democracies in comparison with the “Soviet” Russians; 2) Old Believers as a religious and ethnic community, which is intensively participating in the postmodern processes of reviving their own culture, traditions and identity. The article studies concepts of the minority in the national discourse of the “new” EU countries (Bulgaria and Romania in the Balkans and Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia in the Baltic States). The article is based on field researchers in the Balkans and the Baltic States conducted by the author in 2008-2017, as well as published and archive materials.
Keywords
Old Believers of the Balkans and the Baltic States,
ethnic and religious minorities,
identity of the Russian diaspora in the post-socialist space
Supporting agencies: The study was conducted as a part of bilateral projects (International Academic Programme) between Bulgarian Academy of Science (Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum) in the period 2006-2017 and Lithuanian Institute of History (‘Balkan and Baltics in United Europe', coord. E. Anastasova and Z. Saknis), Institute of Sociology and Philosophy of Latvian University in Riga (“Ethnic and National in Bulgaria and Latvia”, coord. E. Anastasova and I. Runce), and Estonian Literary Museum, Tartu, Estonia (“Tradition and Innovation in culture of Bulgaria and Estonia”, coord. E. Anastasova and M. Koiva).
About the Author
E. Anastasova
Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Ekaterina Anastasova - Dr. of Sci. (Philology), Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
1113, Sofia, blok 6, Acad. G. Bonchev St.
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Anastasova E. Old Believers in the national contexts of the Balkans and the Baltic States. Studia Religiosa Rossica: Russian Journal of Religion. 2021;(2):12-25. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2658-4158-2021-2-12-25
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