OSSETIANS-GEORGIANS: ANALYSIS OF THE PHENOMENON


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Home Editorial board Publication ethics Information Current Archive Rules for authors Contacts	DOI: 10.46698/VNC.2025.30.23.007 OSSETIANS-GEORGIANS: ANALYSIS OF THE PHENOMENON Ktsoeva, Sultana G. Kavkaz Forum. 2025. Issue 23. Abstract: The article analyzes for the first time the Ossetian Georgian sect, which existed, according to the source (a publicistic essay by D. Z. Bakradze), in the 40-50s of the XIXth century in the mountain societies of South Ossetia, and then, leaving no trace, disappeared. Based on the theoretical model of sectarianism by M. Eliade and other religious scholars, the author cites possible reasons for the formation of a religious quasi-group in that period. One of the important objectives of the study was the desire to answer the question of whether the Georgians were a sect formed on the ideological basis of Orthodox Christianity or whether they were an offshoot of the ethnic religion of the Ossetians, which would make the analyzed phenomenon doubly unique. As part of the main goal of the study, the reasons for the emergence of the Georgian group were analyzed, as well as the mechanisms of action of the analyzed reasons on the development of the phenomenon. An important part of the study is a comparative analysis of Georgianism and Whips with the subsequent identification of their similarities. The relevance of this study is due to the ever-growing interest in studying the problems of the history of ethnicity and, in particular, the religious aspects of the life of the ethnic group. The novelty of the study is due to the fact that the phenomenon of the Georgian sect is subjected to scientific analysis for the first time. One of the most important conclusions regarding the analysis of the specific features of Georgianism is the conclusion about its similarity with the cult practice of the sect of Whips. Apparently, the spread of whips in Georgia to some extent provoked the formation of something similar in the Ossetian societies of South Ossetia, which gave rise to a unique phenomenon: in addition to a peculiar form of protest against social injustice, existing religious institutions, poverty and economic crises, Georgianism expressed the desire to preserve the ethnic identity of the Ossetians in Georgia and more broadly in Russia. Keywords: religion, Georgian sect, South Ossetia, D.Z. Bakradze, Whips. Language: Russian Download the full text For citation: Ktsoeva, S.G. Ossetians-Georgians: Analysis of the Phenomenon. KAVKAZ-FORUM. 2025, iss. 23 (30), pp. 89-101. (In Russian). DOI 10.46698/VNC.2025.30.23.007 + References 1. Bakradze, D.Z. Osetiny-georgiantsy [Ossetians-Georgians]. Kavkaz. 1851, no. 69. 2. Gostieva, L.K. Etnograficheskoe izuchenie osetin v 50-e gody XIX v.: D.Z. Bakradze [Ethnographic study of the Ossetians in the 50-s of the XIXth century: D.Z. Bakradze]. Vestnik nauchnykh konferentsii [Bulletin of scientific conferences]. 2016, no. 2-5(6), pp. 37-38. 3. Veber, M. Izbrannye proizvedeniya [Selected Works]. Moscow, Progress, 1990. 808 p. 4. Liri, T. Tekhnologii izmeneniya soznaniya v destruktivnykh kul’takh [Technologies of altering consciousness in destructive cults]. St. Petersburg, Ekslibris, 2002. 224 p. 5. Yashin, A.V., Slashkina, V.R. Kriminologicheskie osobennosti lichnosti lidera i chlena religioznoi sekty [Criminological characteristics of the personality of the leader and member of a religious sect]. Vestnik Penzenskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta [Bulletin of Penza State University]. 2019, no. 2 (26), pp. 25-28. 6. Ryapolov, V.N. Sekta «khlystov» v Voronezhskoi gubernii (po materialam “Voronezhskikh eparkhial’nykh vedomostei”) [The Whips sect in the Voronezh province (based on materials from the Voronezh Diocesan Gazette)]. Problemy sotsial’nykh i gumanitarnykh nauk [Problems of social and humanitarian sciences]. 2023, no. 1 (34), pp. 95-105. 7. Kostomarov, N.I. Byt i nravy russkogo naroda v XVI i XVII stoletiyakh [Life and customs of the Russian people in the XVI-th and XVII-th centuries]. Smolensk, Rusich, 2011. 512 p. 8. Safronov, R.O. Izuchenie sekt v sovetskom religiovedenii: terminologiya i podkhody [The study of sects in Soviet religious studies: terminology and approaches]. Vestnik PSTGU [Bulletin of Orthodox St. Tikhon’s University for the Humanities]. 2013, no. 5 (49), pp. 96-112. 9. Klibanov, A.I. Religioznoe sektantstvo v proshlom i nastoyashchem [Religious sectarianism in the past and present]. Moscow, Nauka, 1973. 256 p. 10. Eliade, M. Istoriya very i religioznykh idei. V 3 t. [History of Faith and Religious Ideas. In 3 volumes]. Moscow, Kriterion. 2002. T.I. Ot kamennogo veka do Elevsinskikh misterii [T.I. From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries]. 464 p. 11. Amiredzhibi, Ch. Data Tutashkhia [Data Tutashkhia]. Tbilisi, Merani, 1979. 736 p. ← Contents of issue


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