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Cultural Prerequisites for the Genesis and Development of Kemetism in Russia
- Authors: Sysoeva A.I.1
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Affiliations:
- Moscow State Linguistic University
- Issue: No 5(899) (2025)
- Pages: 133-138
- Section: Cultural studies
- URL: https://ogarev-online.ru/2542-2197/article/view/297138
- ID: 297138
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Abstract
The purpose of the article is to reveal the historical and cultural prerequisites for the emergence and development in Russia of the pseudo-ancient Egyptian neopagan subculture known as “Kemetism”. In the course of the cultural analysis using the hermeneutic method, the following tasks are solved: argumentation of the emergence of Kemetism on Russian soil in St. Petersburg during the Covid-19 pandemic in the form of the cult of the goddess Bastet, disclosure of Russian Kemetism as a postmodern phenomenon based on the moral concepts of “conscious consumption”, “female power”, “new sincerity”. A conclusion is made about the need for further study of the phenomenon of Russian Kemetism from the standpoint of cultural studies.
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Anna Igorevna Sysoeva
Moscow State Linguistic University
Author for correspondence.
Email: sectoved@gmail.com
PhD Student at the Department of World Culture, Faculty of the Humanities
Russian FederationReferences
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