Ossetian Ritual Feasts and Transpersonal Experience: Re-Description of a Religion as a Religious Practice
Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics December 1, 2021 Sergei Shtyrkov
Abstract The protest of the North Ossetian nativist religious movement against discourses of dominant institutions in the public sphere involves as its necessary component ‘re-description’ of religion in general and ‘re-constructed’ religious systems in particular. Usually, this means revealing allegedly forgotten ancient meanings of indigenous customs, rituals and folklore texts through the...