This book dispels the widely-held view that paganism survived in
Russia alongside Orthodox Christianity, demonstrating that 'double
belief', dvoeverie, is in fact an academic myth.
Scholars, citing the medieval origins of the term, have often
portrayed Russian Christianity as uniquely muddied by paganism,
with 'double-believing' Christians consciously or unconsciously
preserving pagan traditions even into the twentieth century. This
volume shows how the concept of dvoeverie arose with
nineteenth-century scholars obsessed with the Russian 'folk' and
was perpetuated as a propaganda tool in the Soviet period,
colouring our perception of both popular faith in Russian and
medieval Russian culture for over a century. It surveys the wide
variety of uses of the term from the eleventh to the seventeenth
century, and contrasts them to its use in modern historiography,
concluding that our modern interpretation of dvoeverie would not
have been recognized by medieval clerics, and that 'double-belief'
is a modern academic construct. Furthermore, it offers a brief
foray into medieval Orthodoxy via the mind of the believer, through
the language and literature of the period.
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