Inventing the Sacred Place: the Case in Western Siberia

This article reяects on the experience of theorizing sacred place through case-study of Okunevo village in Western Siberia. On particular, it focuses on the analysis of non-traditional religious movements in context of this Siberian village. The article opens with brief review of the meaning and content of concept “sacred place.” It then reяects understudied in scientiёc researches interpretation of sacred place by representatives of neo-orientalism and neopaganism in Siberian region. It concludes with some comments regarding suggestions about possible social functions of sacred places in contemporary reality. Sacred place is considered as a symbolic identity-performance of different religious movements and an idea of “religious revival”. The inventing of sacred space in contemporary context is connected with dissemination of local myths regarding “Chosen people”, “particular energy and spiritual character of the place” and “holy Temple.”

• Golovneva ElenaV.

• Общественные науки

• Гуманитарные науки
• Социальные (общественные) науки