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Russian folk culture and folk religion
Russian traditional culture: religion, gender, and customary law • Armonk, N.y. • Published In 1992 • Pages: 34-47
By: Bernshtam, T. A..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Long recognized as the official state religion, the Russian Orthodox Christian Church has not succeeded in shedding elements of traditional peasant religious practices and mythologies. The author attributes this to a long tradition of translating Orthodox religious texts and prescribed dogma into vernacular verses and cultural practices. The most important practitioners included wandering minstrels, beggars, and itinerant cripples, especially in frontier regions not effectively incorporated into the Russian state until the nineteenth century.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Historical reconstruction
- Theological systems
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Ecclesiastical organization
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Russians
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Europe
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Europe
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnographer
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2019
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not applicable
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 988-1900
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Central Russia; Belarus; Ukraine
- NotesAdditional notes
- T. A. Bernshtam
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 92004775
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ethnology--Russia (Federation)
- Folklore--Russia (Federation)
- Russians--Intellectual life
- Russians--Folklore
- Russia (Federation)--Social life and customs