Popular Religion in Russia
This book dispels the widely-held view that paganism survived in Russia alongside Orthodox Christianity, demonstrating that ''double belief'', dvoeverie, is in fact an academic myth.
Scholars, citing the medieval origins of the term, have often portrayed Russian Christianity as uniquely muddied by paganism, with ''double-believing'' Christians consciously or unconsciously preserving pagan traditio...
This book dispels the widely-held view that paganism survived in Russia alongside Orthodox Christianity, demonstrating that ''double belief'', dvoeverie, is in fact an academic myth.
Scholars, citing the medieval origins of the term, have often portrayed Russian Christianity as uniquely muddied by paganism, with ''double-believing'' Christians consciously or unconsciously preserving pagan traditio...