Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / On the Problem of Evolution of the Russian Orthodox Church’s Missionary Activity in the XVIII – 60-s of the XIX Centuries

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Issue
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2014 7 (11)
Authors
Asochakova, Valentina N.
Contact information
Asochakova, Valentina N.:Katanov Khakass State University 18 Druzhby Narodov Str., Abakan, Khakassia, 655016, Russia; E-mail:
Keywords
christianization; Russian Orthodox Church’s missionary activity; tolerance; newly baptized people
Abstract

Christianization of the indigenous peoples of Siberia was of a general nature. It had a common legal basis for two centuries. Public arrangements of the Soviet power were characterized by a moderate attitude to mass baptism and tolerance to existing religious beliefs of the natives. These general aims were corrected by the Russian Orthodox Church the structure of which was formed on the basis of narrow departmental interests to speed up Christianization. This article reviews the reforms of the missionary activity in the XVIII – the first quarter of the XIX centuries, aiming at the transition from formal baptism to consolidation of Christianization and Russianization of other peoples. The autochthonous population of the Khakass-Minusinsk territory served the example for the analysis of its forms, methods of baptism and quantitative indicators of baptism. The vested system of missionary activity could not solve political and ideological tasks of assimilation of the indigenous population of Siberia, integration of a multi-confessional multilingual social space of the Russian Empire and needed radical changes. The source base is presented by documentation and sources of church demographic statistics

Pages
1844-1850
Paper at repository of SibFU
https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/16506

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