Author: Rasa Pranskevičiūtė-Amoson The ideas of Krishna Consciousness in Lithuania came from Moscow (Russia) through Tallinn (Estonia) and Riga (Latvia) in 1979 and spread among students in Šiauliai who were interested in...
Author: Barbara Martin The religious revival characteristic of many post-Soviet societies is usually dated back to the Perestroika and the liberalization of legislation on religious cults after 1988. In fact, however, interest...
Author: Juliane Fürst In 2017, I took receipt of a strange delivery from Moscow. A friend and colleague of mine met me in Los Angeles, where I was working with the Wende...
Author: Jim Hickman Beginning in 1972, I spent three decades collaborating with Soviets researching exceptional human abilities including parapsychology, all modes of healing, accelerated learning, shamanism, and what the Soviets called “hidden...
Author: Irina Gordeeva Over the last decade numerous memoirs of the cultural underground dedicated to late Soviet times have been published. Nevertheless, many sources, including those on the history of the so-called...
Author: Yulia Senina (European University at Saint Petersburg) In addition to the Russian Orthodox Church and Protestant movements (predominantly Pentecostal), there is a multitude of new and diverse religious movements, spiritual teachings,...
Author: Sergey Pakhomov There is a huge empirical material on the topic of the history of yoga in the USSR, i. e. memories of contemporaries, photographic and film documents, various articles, and...
Author: Marina Alexandrova The legacy of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831–1891), the Russian-American occultist, philosopher, and writer, whose Theosophical teachings influenced generations of spiritual seekers of every shade worldwide, has ignited intense debates...
Author: Birgit Menzel This paper has been presented at the 51st ASEEES Annual Convention held in San Francisco, CA, on November 23, 2019. In the early 1980s, one of the most dramatic...
Author: Julia Andreeva For many religious groups in Russia references to “folk,” “traditional,” and “heritage” play an important role in their popular theology. Usually, these markers allow them to emphasize the antagonism...
