Features of the new language (“novoyaz”) of Russian pagans of the XXI century

Authors

  • Роман Шиженский Нижегородский государственный педагогический университет им. К. Минина, Россия

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15633/ochc.2514

Keywords:

Russian neopaganism, community, narrative, leader, “newspeak”, terms, “we-group”, construct

Abstract

Contemporary paganism, like other new religious movements, includes theoretical explanations and substantiations of the doctrines created by ideologists of associations, oral speeches of leaders, replicated in the form of narratives, electronic carriers, fixed prophecies, and writings of adherents (usually within the first generation). Russian paganism of the XXth–XXIst centuries has its own “novoyaz”, created by the founders of communities and implemented in ritual practice. Modern “pagan language” is manifested in onomastics, ritual terminology and in the construction of magical verbal formulas. «Novo-lingua» used by today’s polytheists is represented by “science-like” and “ethnically enriched” groups; they are characterized by the use of the practice of text complexity. In addition, following other NSDs, pagans are “determined” by a set of standardized markers that are expressed in basic concepts and expressions. One of the characteristic features of the successfully implemented project “pagan seal as a commodity” is the eclecticism of the source of traditional paganism and the new - constructed. This specificity is realized through the textual work of the leader-author, the formula “copy-paste”, due to which the pagan “new people” acquires the features of a full-fledged “historical” source. In this connection, it is possible to draw parallels between the «new language of new pagans» and the phenomenon of “folk-stories”. Like the latter, the “historical” creations of modern leaders from nativism pretend to be true in the last instance.

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