Every radical change that Nanai experienced in the 20th century divided the young people of this indigenous minority in Russia in two groupsradicals and conservatives, sharing values of the older generation.This way, in the period of establishing the Soviet power, radicals were members of the Young Communist League (Komsomol) who repressed shamans, whereas conservatives were those young people...
Since the 1990s various new pagan organisations have emerged in Russia.Religious phenomena known in Western Europe, such as the emergence of new religious movements, including the New Age, are also taking place in Russia.The article aims to find out whether the pagan movements in today's Russia are related and if so, how they are related according to the comparative perspective explicated by...
Belief in the hereditary transmission of shaman's gift is common to all Siberian shamanism. One can find corresponding motifs in Nganasan shamanism as well as in Tuvinian one. Often there is impossible to become a shaman without having shamans-ancestors in family. Sometimes they are namely the spirits of shamans-ancestors, who at first reveal themselves to the devotee and force him to...