A Short History of Yoga in the USSR
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: 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: Joseph Kellner At the twilight of Marxism-Leninism, some Soviet citizens, mostly of the educated urban middle class, accepted Western-style liberal democracy and capitalism as the only worldview still worthy of the...
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...
Author: Birgit Menzel The Greco-Armenian spiritual teacher, philosopher, and composer George I. Gurdjieff (1866–1949) has remained one of the major figures in 20th-century Western esotericism. Both the Enneagram and New Age Sufism,...
Andrei Tiukhtiaev takes a close look at the practice of pilgrimage in New Age spirituality, focusing on the issues of sociality and performance. In the following article, Andrei shares his personal experience...