Verbal Clichés of Followers in the “Anastasia” New Religious Movement

Abstract

The article features the new religious movement “Zveniashchie kedry Rossii” [Ringing Cedars of Russia], also named for its prophet “Anastasia,” which appeared in Russia in the mid-1990s. The movement emerged after the publication of an eponymous series of books by Vladimir Megre. Followers of the community have developed their own language based on the works that have served as the movement’s source. The concepts highlighted in the article are part of the global New Age movement as well as the fruit of Megre and his readers.