ADYGHE CHRISTIANS TODAY
Abstract
The author relies on field ethnographic materials, collected in the Republic of Adygea in 2016-2017, to analyze a new and little studied religious phenomenon, i.e., the emergence of Christian communities among the Adyghes, its sources and possible repercussions for the Adyghe society. The first trends became obvious in the 1990s, when the south of Russia was flooded by Western missionaries. The interrelationship between the Adyghe Protestant and Orthodox communities is discussed; the attitude of the Adyghe Christians relating to their ethnic culture, the current state of the relations between the Muslim and Christian Adyghes in Adyghea and the specifics of the everyday life of Adyghe Christians are examined. The author provides a conclusion that the emergence of the Adyghe Christians should be discussed in the context of the spiritual crisis of traditional—Muslim and ethnic—identities and the quest for new mountaineer ideologies.
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Here and elsewhere registered and unregistered communities are taken into account.
See: I.L. Babich, “ ‘Miagkaia islamskaia revolutsia’ v sovremennoy Adyghee,” Rossia i musulmanskiy mir, No. 4,2014, pp. 31-31; idem, “Urgent Problems of the Western Circassians in the 21st Century,” Central Asia and the Caucasus,No. 2, 2014, pp. 121-132.
See: R. Khanakhu, “Islamskaia obshchina segodnia,” Vestnik Adygheyskogo Universiteta, No. 12, 2012, p. 34.
See: I.L. Babich, Polevye materialy avtora, Adyghea, 2017 (hereinafter PMA—2017).
See: I.L. Babich, “Protestantskoe dvizhenie v Adyghee,” in: Khristianstvo na Severnom Kavkaze: istoria i sovremen-nost, Moscow, 2011, pp. 162-185.
PMA—2017.
See: A.A. Muzalev, M.A. Shorova, “Khristianstvo v Adyghee: istoria i soveremennost,” Vestnik Adygeyskogo gosu-darstvennogo universiteta, No. 1, 2006, pp. 54-56; R.A. Ostapenko, “Religioznye verovaniia Adyghov po svedeniiam evropey-skikh avtorov,” Kulturnaia zhizn yuga Rossii, No. 41, 2001, pp. 36-38; I.L. Babich, V.O. Bobrovnikov, L.T. Solovieva, “Islam i Khristianstvo na Severnom Kavkaze,” in: Severny Kavkaz v sostave Rossiyskoy imperii, Moscow, 2007, pp. 88-111.
PMA—2017.
Ibidem.
Ibidem.
See: I.L. Babich, Polevye materialy avtora, Adyghea, 2016 (hereinafter PMA—2016).
See: I.L. Babich, Polevye materialy avtora, Adyghea, 2009 (hereinafter PMA—2009); PMA—2016.
PMA—2016.
PMA—2009.
PMA—2016.
PMA—2009.
PMA—2016.
PMA—2009.
PMA—2016.
PMA—2017.
PMA—2009.
PMA—2017.
PMA—2016.
PMA—2017.
Ibidem.
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