What is it about?
This article examines the transformation of ethnic Russian religiosity in Mongolia. Orthodoxy became simply an element of collective memory, determining identity for ethnic Russians permanently residing in Mongolia. There is a set of commemorative practices without church-going and without the church as a formal institution. Such lacuna led to a specific type of frontier religiosity, reliant on two or three traditions.
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Why is it important?
Change in borders can affect religious identity. A community existing under conditions of a constantly changing border most likely cannot preserve a religious tradition.
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I hope that this article will affect the understanding of the social conditions of the frontier in which a person has the opportunity to choose. The choice of religion, culture, lifestyle. It is important because it makes one think about what is the freedom of choice of political and religious identity and loyalty.
Alexey Mikhalev
Buryat state university
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This page is a summary of: The Russian Diaspora in Mongolia: Stages of the Formation of Frontier Religiosity, Anthropology & Archeology of Eurasia, April 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/10611959.2018.1470428.
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