Отражение темы религиозной идентичности гагаузов в художественной литературе

Abstract

Religious identity of the Gagauzians is represented fragmentarily in the works of contemporary fiction. As a rule, this kind of identity manifests itself in the purely personal situations of the lyric hero. Appeal to God takes place when the plot of the poems is related to the author's personal experiences related to the health or well-being of relatives and friends, with creative inspiration, with reflections on good and evil, on the person's purpose, on the problem of spiritual development and moral duty. A number of poems are dedicated to the Christian commandments, but their author at that time was a devotee of the Protestant current - Evangelical Christian Baptists. Other works in poetic form describe church holidays associated with the people's calendar. The study showed that religious identity is more evident in the works of younger poets. In the writings of the first generation writers who emerged from the Gagauzian environment, an appeal to God is extremely rare and, mainly in poems written during perestroika, when the atheistic ideology has lost its force and relevance.