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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.
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 movement of the Old Believers is a form of "folk Orthodoxy", a coalescence of Pagan, Gnostic and unofficial Orthodox currents, that by the mid-17th century seceded from the Russian Orthodox Church (the Raskol, "Schism"), channelling the "mass religious dissent" of the Russian common people towards the Church, viewed as the religion of the ...
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]
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 ...
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.
Also, no accounts written down directly by the pagan Slavs exist. During the Christianization missions, the deities, on the one hand, were demonized to deter from worshipping them, on the other hand, their characteristics and functions were assumed by the saints, which was supposed to make the new religion less alien.