Representations of folk traditions and religiosity in the modern popular culture (the case of Feofan the Neuromonk project)
https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2024-4-112-136
Abstract
Nowadays in Russia, there are clearly visible signs of desecularization of the social imagination, also in the genres and practices of popular culture and yet that desecularization is accompanied by the simultaneous actualization of «nationality» – as a characteristic of creative work and as an instrument of national (self)identification. Often such a new appeal to religion and «nationality», in all the diversity of forms, for cultural entrepreneurs is determined, as far as can be judged by the examples of their creative work, not at all by their own «insight», but by the desire to present to the public some examples of their compliance with the obvious public demand for acquiring «spirituality». Using a specific example from the field of popular music, an attempt is made to understand what is hidden behind the façade of a «return to tradition» and postmodern games with religiosity in modern mass culture, how legitimate it is to talk about the «retrotoping» (Z. Bauman) of public attitudes and the reification through the scene of a reflective nostalgia (S. Boym) for the conventional «golden age» of Russian history as a guideline for everyday life, or is it more correct to talk here about the scenic incarnations of such a phenomenon as counter-urbanization (the same as «new rurality»), when the pre-industrial – «traditional» – way of life is imagined as form of leisure for a modern city dweller.
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Supporting agencies: The article is prepared within the framework of the Program of fundamental and applied research «Ethnocultural diversity of Russian society and strengthening of all-Russian identity», project «Neo-paganism in the Russian Federation».
About the Author
K. M. Korolev
The Patria Center for History and Culture
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Kyril M. Korolev, Cand. of Sci. (Philology)
150, Obvodnoi kanal Emb., Saint-Petersburg, 190020
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Korolev K.M. Representations of folk traditions and religiosity in the modern popular culture (the case of Feofan the Neuromonk project). RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2024;(4):112-136. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2024-4-112-136
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