ORTHODOX OLD BELIEVERS’ SELF-IMMOLATION AS A COUNTER-SECULAR POSITION
The article examines the ideological, mental and spiritual causes of mass self-immolation of Old Believers XVII-XVIII centuries as a response to secularization, triumphed after the Raskol (Church schism in the XVII). Among the reasons are intertwined challenges of modernity, especially of traditional Orthodox spirituality and traditionalist activity of Old Believers. Not being a complete strategy of behavior, but the Old Believers strategy symbolizing the Exodus, self-immolation became a semiotic banner of the Old Believers, symbolically inspire them the heroic resistance of the Modernity.