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A priest of Svantevit depicted on a stone from Arkona, now in the church of Altenkirchen, Rügen.. Slavic paganism, Slavic mythology, or Slavic religion is the religious beliefs, myths, and ritual practices of the Slavs before Christianisation, which occurred at various stages between the 8th and the 13th century.
Paganism and Tengrism, counted together as "traditional religions of the forefathers" [34] were the third-largest religious group after Christianity and Islam, with 1,700,000 believers or 1.2% of the total population of Russia in 2012. [3]
The scholar of religion Adrian Ivakhiv has defined Rodnovery as a movement which "harkens back to the pre-Christian beliefs and practices of ancient Slavic peoples", [15] while according to the historian and ethnologist Victor A. Schnirelmann, Rodnovers present themselves as "followers of some genuine pre-Christian Slavic, Russian or Slavic ...
Slavic Native Faith (Rodnovery) has a theology that is generally monistic, consisting in the vision of a transcendental, supreme God (Rod, "Generator") which begets the universe and lives immanentised as the universe itself (pantheism and panentheism), present in decentralised and autonomous way in all its phenomena, generated by a multiplicity of deities which are independent hypostases ...
At the Russian march in Lyublino (Moscow), neo-pagan symbolism was dominant. [35] The event in Lyublino was attended, in particular, by Vladimir Istarkhov, the author of the neo-pagan book "The Strike of the Russian Gods", and his "Russian Right Party". [36] Rodnoverie is a popular religion among Russian skinheads.
The MTR organisation is composed of over 100 religious groups, and includes Mari of all three categories. [10] Mari folk belief has been incorporated into the national school curriculum in Mari El, [11] and Mari paganism is one of the three recognised "traditional" religions of the republic along with Russian Orthodoxy and Islam. [12]
In the end, all of this leads only to the discrediting of both the modern Pagan movement and Russian science. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] According to the religious scholar A. V. Gaidukov, this appeal is an attempt by some Rodnovers to protect themselves from radical manifestations of nationalism or "esoteric deviations.
Recognized under the law and by Russian political leaders as one of Russia's traditional religions, Islam is a part of Russian historical heritage, and is subsidized by the Russian government. [5] The position of Islam as a major Russian religion, alongside Orthodox Christianity , dates from the time of Catherine the Great , who sponsored ...