Open AccessOLD BELIEVERS’ CUSTOMS OF “NON-DESECRATION” DURING THE SPREAD OF THE NEW VIRAL INFECTION COVID-19 (BASED ON MATERIALS FROM THE NOVOSIBIRSK REGION)
Author(s) -
Е. Ф. Фурсова,
Ethnography Sb Rаs
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
religiovedenie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2712-7575
pISSN - 2072-8662
DOI - 10.22250/2072-8662.2021.3.118-124
Subject(s) - conviction , plague (disease) , appeal , isolation (microbiology) , covid-19 , history , ancient history , genealogy , law , political science , biology , medicine , microbiology and biotechnology , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty)
The article analyzes the customs of overcoming “desecration” (self-isolation from the modern world), actualizing among the Siberian Old Believers of different religious trends (accepting and not accepting the priesthood) during the spread of the new viral infection COVID-19. These interviews show that the Novosibirsk Old Believers have a firm conviction about the sinfulness of the “world” and its inhabitants as the root cause of the spread of the dangerous epidemic, but there is a difference in views between supporters of different directions, as well as on the acceptability of vaccination. Social upheavals throughout the history of mankind were accompanied by many concomitant factors, one of which was an appeal to the patterns included in the ethnocultural memory of peoples. At the beginning of the 21st century, the ideas and customs of the Old Believers were updated, which helped them to survive earlier during periods of epidemics (for example, the plague of 1771). As in the 18th - 19th centuries this is the observance of the tradition of eating exclusively from “their own dishes”, minimizing communication with the worldly (atheists, infidels, etc...