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Soviet geologists expected rocks, not a religion-fueled time warp, when they spotted a lone garden deep in Siberia in 1978. Writing for the Guardian, Sophie Pinkham revisits the Lykov family, ...
News Russia » Siberia » Religion: ‘Siberian Jesus’ sentenced to Russian prison after harming followers in bizarre cult
A Siberian cult leader who claims to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ was sentenced to 12 years in a Russian prison camp after his conviction for physically and financially harming his followers.
News Russia » Siberia » Religion: Jesus of Siberia: The traffic cop turned cult leader who claimed to be the son of god — and will now spend 12 years in jail
Jesus of Siberia: The traffic cop turned cult leader who claimed to be the son of god — and will now spend 12 years in jail - Alex Croft looks at how Sergei Torop, also known as Vissarion, ended up in ...
News Russia » Siberia » Religion: Shamanism : Soviet studies of traditional religion in Siberia and Central Asia / edited by Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer
Introduction / Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer -- Chosen by the spirits / V.N. Basilov -- Shamanism among the Turkic peoples of Siberia / N.A. Alekseev -- Buryat shamanism : history, structure, and social ...