Astral Karate as a Phenomenon of Late-Soviet Esoteric Underground
The article concentrates on the history of Astral Karate, its doctrine and sources. Astral Karate was a late-Soviet eclectic spiritual movement based on esoteric interpretations of martial arts and yoga. The term “Astral Karate” had spread in the 1980s thanks to spiritual leader and underground esot...
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| description | The article concentrates on the history of Astral Karate, its doctrine and sources. Astral Karate was a late-Soviet eclectic spiritual movement based on esoteric interpretations of martial arts and yoga. The term “Astral Karate” had spread in the 1980s thanks to spiritual leader and underground esoteric author Valery Averianov who called himself Guru Var Avera. On one hand, the movement reflected global tendencies, such as growing interest in Eastern cultures and spirituality, that characterized esoteric groups in the USSR as well as in the USA and Europe during this period. On the other hand, esoteric groups in the Soviet Union developed in isolation from European and American esoteric currents and under unique ideological and legal pressures. The combination of these factors contributed to the originality of late-Soviet esoteric currents and therefore makes Astral Karate an important object of academic inquiry, which helps us to understand the specifics of Soviet spirituality and its further developments in post- Soviet states |
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| spelling | doaj.art-45dd4f0560864dbb95a89da6071f2d132022-12-21T18:34:23ZengDe GruyterOpen Theology2300-65792017-08-013140841610.1515/opth-2017-0032opth-2017-0032Astral Karate as a Phenomenon of Late-Soviet Esoteric UndergroundPanin Stanislav0D. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia, Moscow, Russian FederationThe article concentrates on the history of Astral Karate, its doctrine and sources. Astral Karate was a late-Soviet eclectic spiritual movement based on esoteric interpretations of martial arts and yoga. The term “Astral Karate” had spread in the 1980s thanks to spiritual leader and underground esoteric author Valery Averianov who called himself Guru Var Avera. On one hand, the movement reflected global tendencies, such as growing interest in Eastern cultures and spirituality, that characterized esoteric groups in the USSR as well as in the USA and Europe during this period. On the other hand, esoteric groups in the Soviet Union developed in isolation from European and American esoteric currents and under unique ideological and legal pressures. The combination of these factors contributed to the originality of late-Soviet esoteric currents and therefore makes Astral Karate an important object of academic inquiry, which helps us to understand the specifics of Soviet spirituality and its further developments in post- Soviet stateshttps://doi.org/10.1515/opth-2017-0032western esotericismsoviet esotericismmartial artskarateyoga |
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| title | Astral Karate as a Phenomenon of Late-Soviet Esoteric Underground |
| title_full | Astral Karate as a Phenomenon of Late-Soviet Esoteric Underground |
| title_fullStr | Astral Karate as a Phenomenon of Late-Soviet Esoteric Underground |
| title_full_unstemmed | Astral Karate as a Phenomenon of Late-Soviet Esoteric Underground |
| title_short | Astral Karate as a Phenomenon of Late-Soviet Esoteric Underground |
| title_sort | astral karate as a phenomenon of late soviet esoteric underground |
| topic | western esotericism soviet esotericism martial arts karate yoga |
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