ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the results of research into the implementation of environmental and spiritual ideas of alternative communitarian movements during the spread of nature-based spiritual communities and their settlements in the post-Soviet region. It discusses the nature-based spiritual settlements in the post-Soviet region consisted of small individual communities. The chapter analyze both the looser and stricter group structures of these two new religious movements which, due to their worldview and lifestyle peculiarities, are considered to be subcultural groups, using the definition in the broad sense of the American sociological tradition. It analyze the problem concern with the utopian visions of an ideal world within contemporary communitarian, nature-based spirituality movements in the post-Soviet region. The chapter attempts to reveal the spiritual and cultural changes that are characteristic of the period analyzed, including the prevalence of alternative spiritual movements that seek to establish utopian nature-based spiritual communities, which is discussed in a general cultural context.
