"WHY HAVE I BECOME A PAGAN": EXPERIENCE OF THE DIASPORA’S LEADERS SURVEY
On the basis of a questionnaire online survey the authors examined a complex of reasons that prompted the leaders of the contemporary Russian pagan movement to turn to this type of world view. The obtained responses enable to distinguish the following conceptual blocks of the neophytes’ “entering” paganism: fate, destiny; national self-consciousness; spiritual search; acceptance of faith thanks to a friend / an outside man; influence of family.