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Ivanovism (Russian: Ивановство, Ивановизм) is a Rodnover (Slavic Neopagan) new religious movement and healing system in Eastern Europe based on the teachings of the Russian mystic Porfiry Korneyevich Ivanov (1898–1983),[1] who elaborated his doctrines by drawing upon Russian folklore.[2] The movement began to take institutional forms between the 1980s and the 1990s,[3] and in the same period it had an influence on the other Rodnover movement of Peterburgian Vedism.[4]
Ivanovite theology is a pantheism in which "Nature" (Pri-Roda in Slavic languages) is seen as a personified, universal and almighty force expressing herself primarily as the four elemental gods of Air, Earth, Fire and Water,[5] while Porfiry Ivanov is deified as the Parshek, her messenger and intercessor.[6] In some interpretations of the theology, Nature is the cloth of a more abstract God, and God comes to full consciousness in mankind.[7] Central to the movement's practice are the Detka ("Child") health system based on twelve commandments and the singing of a Hymn to Life which contains a synthesis of the movement's beliefs.[8]
- ^ Ivakhiv 2005, p. 16; Aitamurto 2016, p. 180; Prokopyuk 2017, p. 35.
- ^ Aitamurto 2016, p. 180.
- ^ Knorre 2006, passim.
- ^ Aitamurto 2016, p. 35.
- ^ Knorre 2006, p. 251.
- ^ Knorre 2006, p. 252.
- ^ Prokopyuk 2017, p. 37.
- ^ Balagushkin 2008, p. 475; Prokopyuk 2017, p. 35.