Carrying the Torch of Faith and Mother Tongue: An Oregonian Old Believer’s Paths of Faith
Tamara Morris
University of Oregon (Eugene, USA)Abstract
This article is devoted to the extraordinary personality of Makar Afanas’evich Zeniukhin (1938-2020) a Bespopovets Old Believer belonging to Chasovennye Denomination
from Xinjiang, and to his lifelong ordeals while migrating from China through Argentina to
Woodburn, Oregon, and ending up in the Siberian Dubchessky Monastery, Russia. The account
of his life reflects the consequences of the twenty-first century split in the Old Believers
communities among the Oregonian Bespopovets Old Believers. It also describes Makar
Zeniukhin’s dialect, including the characteristic features of his language variation on different
levels. The research is based on the method of scientific description and discourse analysis that
studies his language recorded during our conversations between 2004 and 2014. The article also
describes his written language based on letters sent to us from the Siberian Dubchessky Monastery. Makar Zeniukhin’s oral narrations, coherent stories, and written letters are of particular value as historical and ethnographic resources depicting the events and life of Old Believers in Oregon, USA.
Keywords:
Old Believer, Oregon, personality, church schism, Dubchessky Monastery, dialectReferences
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