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...
Tagged: USSR
New Worldviews at the Soviet Collapse and Transition
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...
New Age Diplomacy: The Role of the Esalen Institute in Ending the Cold War
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...
Report on Our St Petersburg Workshop, 1–3 October 2019
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...
New Age Astrology in the Time of Computer Technologies
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...
Alexander Panchenko on the New Age Project
In this interview with Alexander Panchenko, the head of the Russian project team, we learn about his understanding of New Age culture, his personal connection to our object of research as well...
Birgit Menzel on the New Age Project
Birgit Menzel, project leader on the German side, has been asked about her views on New Age in general and on Russia in particular, which represents the main focus of our international...
New Age in Late and Post-Soviet Russia
This research blog is dedicated to the socio-anthropological study of new religious cultures that attracted global attention at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st centuries and that...
