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: 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: 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: Dany Savelli Agni Yoga, the spiritual teaching that the painter Nicholas [Nikolai] Roerich (1874–1947) and his wife Elena Roerich (born Shaposhnikova) (1879–1955) elaborated in the 1920s–1930s, is endowed with the important...
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: Andrey Tiukhtiaev On November 15–16, 2019, European University at St Petersburg hosted the annual conference “Exhibition of Academic Research Achievements”. This event, which has already become a tradition, is intended to...
Our New Age project team is delighted to announce its participation at the 51st ASEEES Annual Convention, which will take place from 23 to 26 November 2019 in San Francisco, California. The...
Here’s How Anarchism and Mysticism Go Together (II) Author: Romina Kaltenbach (née Heim) Part 3: From Hylics to Pneumatics Writing about this ‘second-period’ mystical anarchism in coherence with everything said before proves...
Here’s How Anarchism and Mysticism Go Together (I) Author: Romina Kaltenbach (née Heim) Anarchism is often thought of as being atheist in nature, since anarchists traditionally oppose authority, including religious authority (Davis...
Author: Sergei Shtyrkov The Republic of North Ossetia is special among other North Caucasian national republics of Russia (“national” means having a non-Russian ethnic majority as the main nation, the titular ethnic...
Author: Andrei Tiukhtiaev The second workshop of our German-Russian research group “New Religious Cultures in Late and Post-Soviet Russia” was conducted from 1 to 3 October 2019 at European University at Saint...
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: Anna Tessmann Occult knowledge transforms itself quickly, responding to the technology and the commercial spirit of the time. One of the most obvious beneficiaries of the recent technological achievements in the...
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,...
A week ago our project team reunited in Amsterdam to attend, for the very first time, a conference as a group. The 7th Biannual Conference of the European Society for the Study...