Языческая манифестация XXI в. (2022 год: итоги и перспективы). Статья II.

Abstract

Slavic paganism of the last third of 20th — first quarter of 21st century is a religious phenomenon with an established history and a specific set of methodical recommendations for “survival” in a hostile (less neutral) environment, replenishment of the ranks of neophytes, creation of a new community, private references: priests, soldiers, family, social, economic and other. Features of pagan manifestation, for the first time mentioned in the program statements of A.A. Dobrovolsky (Dobroslav), were supplemented and adapted in accordance with actual trends by ideologues of the “second” and “third” waves. The Young Pagan Collective “teaching manual” includes prescriptions concerning self-development, nature centrism, concepts of counteracting external threats, the attitude towards state power, author’s vision of solving problems of national and racial issues. The set of existing issues has made adjustments to the internal program of actions. The creation of specialized information resources “Red Tape” and “Xenophobia”, containing data on persecutions of representatives of the worldview under study should be considered as the climax response to the challenges of paganism. The proposed paper is based on the answers of leaders of the pagan microworld to the question: “What line of issues and challenges is now existing before the Slavic paganism of the post-millennium?”. According to the analysis of respondents' data, the most urgent problems of the ethno-oriented variant of the movement include the categories of endemic complications (external negative factor), resulting in emergence of phenomena of pagan self-isolation and nativist “inquisition”.