Vladimir Bohoras’s ‘Minimum of Religion’
Essays on Religious Studies June 17, 2026 Vitaliy Schepanskiy
This review discusses a 2018 collection of Vladimir Bogoras's works on shamanism, prepared by Marianna Shakhnovich and Ekaterina Teryukova. It summarizes the book's contents and examines its design, focusing on the scholars who compiled the archival materials. The discussion covers Bogoras's main ideas about the religious consciousness of Siberia's indigenous population. A comparative analysis of his early and later works shows that his core concept of animism remained unchanged, though his later writings show traces of political pressure and Marxist censorship.