Modern Pagan and Native Faith Movements in Central and Eastern Europe

The European piety after Communism has received wide attention, but various religious activities in various countries of Central Europe and Eastern Europe are actually hidden behind the language and culture of the area It is. This volume outlines one of the most important developments in the region, emergence of heathens, and "community beliefs" movement. Contemporary pagan faith and indigenous belief movement in Central and Eastern Europe gathered scholars in this area and announced a systematic national profile - Armenia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovenia and Ukraine - And articles exploring specific topics such as racial discrimination and the Internet. This amount will be interesting to scholars of new religious movements, especially scholars seeking a more comprehensive modern pagan world.

Slav Aboriginal belief, also known as Rodnovery, is modern pagan religion. As a new religious movement, the practitioner can go back to the historical belief system of the Slavic people of Central and Eastern Europe. The Rodnover organization further describes Religion as Orthodox, Old Faith, and Vedicism, but "Rodnovery" is a widely accepted self-description in the community. Rodnovers generally thinks that their religion is a faithful continuation of ancient faith which survived as a conscious "double faith" after folk religion or medieval slavic Christianization. Rodnovery used even non-Slav cultural sources such as the surviving historical and archaeological materials, folk religion and Hinduism. Rodnov's theology and cosmology can be explained as the spirit of the supernatural god who worships the universe, polytheism, and polygamus, ancestor and the spirit of nature determined through slavic culture.

Religious scholars regard slavic indigenous beliefs as religious beliefs of modern pagans. They also expressed it as a new religious movement. The movement does not have an overall structure, it does not recognize religious authority, and has many diversity in beliefs and practices. Religious sociologist Kaarina Aitamurto thinks that Rodnovery is diverse and can be regarded as a general term for summarizing various forms of religious beliefs rather than a single religion.

The European piety after Communism has received wide attention, but various religious activities in various countries of Central Europe and Eastern Europe are actually hidden behind the language and culture of the area It is. This volume outlines one of the most important developments in the region, emergence of heathens, and "community beliefs" movement. Contemporary pagan faith and indigenous belief movement in Central and Eastern Europe gathered scholars in this area and announced a systematic national profile - Armenia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovenia and Ukraine - And articles exploring specific topics such as racial discrimination and the Internet. This amount will be interesting to scholars of new religious movements, especially scholars seeking a more comprehensive modern pagan world.