VEDIC SLAVISM AS AN INTERSECTION BETWEEN ALTERNATIVE SPIRITUALITY AND RELIGION

• Authors: Kubisa Tomáš
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This study, with the help of combined research methods, focuses on the analysis of the activities of groups claiming to be Vedic Slavs in Slovakia. Although these groups lay claim to a unified basis – the published canon of the Slavic-Aryan Vedas – they show considerable differences in the interpretations and applications of this doctrine. Currently, they also show certain similarities in their organization, namely, unclear institutionalization and unclear boundaries between religion and spirituality. The results of this research thus confirm the validity of the theory of social theorists about the blurring of the boundaries between spirituality and religiosity even in the Slovak alternative religious milieu.

Keywords

EN

VEDIC SLAVISM; ALTERNATIVE SPIRITUALITY; INSTITUTIONALIZED RELIGIOSITY; DIMENSIONS OF RELIGIOSITY; SLOVAKIA

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology)
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 70
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 530 - 548

Contributors

author

Kubisa Tomáš

• Institute of Ethnography and Social Anthropology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3099-1883

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/SN.2022.4.41