Socio-political aspects of western Slovenian nature worshippers’ community

[Socio-political aspects of western Slovenian nature worshippers’ community] In the introduction,
the author explains arguments in favour of considering Pavel Medvešček Klančar‘s ethnographic
opus as an authentic source on Western Slovenian nature worshippers’ counterculture. She
then argues for denomination “Western Slovenian Nature Worship” as opposed to “Old Believers
from the Soča River region”. Next, she theorizes the Western Slovenian nature worshippers‘ community
as potential primordial societal form and Foucauldian heterotopia. Central focus of the text
is on specifics of territorial administration of the nature worshippers’ community, their political
organisation as well as principal ideological elements of the nature worshippers‘ counterculture. In
the conclusion, the author discusses the importance of nature worshippers‘ attitude towards nature
and their governance system for the contemporary (Slovenian) society.
Keywords: Nature Worship, Western Slovenia, society, politics, history