TY - JOUR

T1 - 'White kerchiefs' against atheism

AU - Artamoshkina, Liudmila

N1 - Funding Information: 1 The publication was prepared with the support of the grant of Russian Foundation for basic research № № 19-011-00775 “The topology of cultural memory in dialogue of generations” Publisher Copyright: © 2018 Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Latvia. All rights reserved. Copyright: Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

PY - 2018

Y1 - 2018

N2 - For 70 years the official religion of the Soviet power was atheism. How did it happen that not only was the existence of the Orthodox Church officially allowed but real faith was preserved outside official institutions as well as beyond the borders of state ideology? What were the ways of passing religious traditions from generation to generation? What were the main features of "people's faith" phenomenon? The report given considers some of the traditions that emerged in the Soviet period. They are metaphorically designated as the "White Kerchiefs" phenomenon. The report was made based on field research materials. Both theoretical approaches to the analysis of suchlike materials and possible methodological foundations are defined here. The author introduces the idea of "biography type" and deals with the concept of "topology of cultural memory".

AB - For 70 years the official religion of the Soviet power was atheism. How did it happen that not only was the existence of the Orthodox Church officially allowed but real faith was preserved outside official institutions as well as beyond the borders of state ideology? What were the ways of passing religious traditions from generation to generation? What were the main features of "people's faith" phenomenon? The report given considers some of the traditions that emerged in the Soviet period. They are metaphorically designated as the "White Kerchiefs" phenomenon. The report was made based on field research materials. Both theoretical approaches to the analysis of suchlike materials and possible methodological foundations are defined here. The author introduces the idea of "biography type" and deals with the concept of "topology of cultural memory".

KW - People's faith

KW - Russian Orthodox Church

KW - Topology of cultural history

KW - White Kerchiefs

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M3 - Review article

AN - SCOPUS:85092063349

VL - 25

SP - 174

EP - 182

JO - Religiski-Filozofiski Raksti

JF - Religiski-Filozofiski Raksti

SN - 1407-1908

ER -