Old Believers about Themselves (a sociolinguistic aspect)

Abstract

The aim of the research is to review and compare different points of view about old believers: official-fixed in Russian dictionaries; notions of representatives of different religious dominations; views of old believers about themselves. Also the objective of this study is to compare opinions of old believers of different generations: elder, middle and younger.

Keywords

• старовер
• старообрядец
• раскольник
• старообрядчество
• вера
• церковная жизнь
• традиция
• обряд