Folk Healing Practices of Russian Peasants of Western Siberia of the XIX — Beginning XX Century (Spiritual and Ecological Aspect)
https://doi.org/10.26105/SSPU.2023.82.1.014
Abstract
Based on published sources and special research in the field of folk medicine, the article analyzes the influence of spiritual and ecological knowledge on the healing practices of the peasants of Western Siberia of the XIX— early XX centuries. The theoretical basis of the research was the concept of spiritual and ecological development of society. In the course of the study, it was found that the natural and geographical environment and religious beliefs had a decisive influence on healing practices. By analyzing the conspiratorial practices of the region, the author shows the role of natural factors, mineral remedies in medical practice and their connection with the religious beliefs of the peasants, indicates the relationship with the scientific knowledge of the period under study. It is established that Christianity contributed to the replenishment of traditional medicine with new spiritual and moral methods of church healing, at the same time pagan ideas continued to be present in the spiritual and ecological healing practices of the peasants of Western Siberia.
About the Author
S. I. Bondarenko
Altai State Agricultural University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Bondarenko Svetlana Ivanovna — PhD (Historical Sciences), Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Humanities
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Bondarenko S.I. Folk Healing Practices of Russian Peasants of Western Siberia of the XIX — Beginning XX Century (Spiritual and Ecological Aspect). Surgut State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2023;(1 (82)):122-131. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.26105/SSPU.2023.82.1.014
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