Multiple Nationalisms and Patriotisms Among Russian Rodnovers

Shizhenskii, Roman; Aitamurto, Kaarina

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“…European native faiths have now been studied extensively in a way which allows a finer analysis of their ideologies (Aitamurto 2016;Aitamurto and Simpson 2013;Amster 2015;Harvey 1997, p. 68;Simpson 2017;Shizenskii and Aitamurto 2017;Strmiska 2005, p. 24). Those analyses contribute to distinguishing right-wing elements from relevant autochthonous elements, in other words to differentiating a right-wing perspective from an autochthonous one.…”

Section: The European Contextmentioning

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Rediscovering Old Gaul: Within or Beyond the Nation-State?

Ferlat¹

2019

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Paganism is an umbrella term which, along with Wicca and various eclectic Pagan paths, encompasses European native faiths or, in other words, autochthonous pre-Christian religions. Thus at the intersection of Paganism and indigenous religions the contemporary return of European native faiths arguably constitutes an example of European indigenism on the model of autochthonous peoples’ liberation movements. This paper furthers my previous analysis which addressed the theme of European native faiths and ethnopsychiatry (Ferlat 2014), where I began to explore the idea that European native faiths might offer a route for healing traumas resulting from waves of acculturation which, throughout history, have undermined specific groups in Europe nowadays labelled “ethnocultural”. Such traumas are the object of study in ethnopsychiatry and cross-cultural psychology among people who face the consequences of violent acculturation. Considering the role played by the revitalization of cultures on other continents, I continue here my reflection about the way that European indigeneity and indigenism might be incarnated by European native faiths. I focus in particular on a reconstructionist Druidic group in France, the Druidic Assembly of the Oak and the Boar (ADCS). I introduce the concept of “internal colonialism” as an analytical tool to understand the meaning of one of its rituals which relates to Old Gaul and epitomizes a decolonizing stance. I conclude that the ADCS embodies a specific native project: an internal decolonization and peaceful indigenization process at work within a nation-state. However given a context where internal colonization is not officially recognized, the potential resilience of such a process remains uncertain.

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Section: The European Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rediscovering Old Gaul: Within or Beyond the Nation-State?

Ferlat¹

2019

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Transcendendo o tempo e o lugar no contexto da Covid-19

Rountree

2021

Cienc. Soc. y Relig.

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During 2020, because of Covid-related restrictions, opportunities to travel to sacred heritage sites dramatically decreased and Pagans’ and shamans’ gatherings and rituals necessarily moved online. This article picks up from an earlier paper (Rountree, 2006) to reconsider relationships between time, place, imagination and ritual performance in the online context. It argues that whereas in the context of “real” heritage sites, the temporal boundary between past and present seems to blur or dissolve as a result of Pagans’ embodied, material connections with a sacred place, in the online ritual context boundaries of place blur or dissolve because of synchronous temporal connections with likeminded others in sacred space. Two case studies are explored: the responses of those who gathered online to witness English Heritage’s livestreaming of Summer Solstice 2020 at Stonehenge, and the experiences of a group of modern Western shamans, mostly living in Malta, whose regular meetings shifted from members’ homes, places in nature and sacred heritage sites to Zoom in early 2020.

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Multiple Nationalisms and Patriotisms Among Russian Rodnovers

Cited by 2 publications

References 9 publications

Rediscovering Old Gaul: Within or Beyond the Nation-State?

Rediscovering Old Gaul: Within or Beyond the Nation-State?

Transcendendo o tempo e o lugar no contexto da Covid-19

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