Of Religion and Empire: Missions, Conversion, and Tolerance in Tsarist Russia

368 Pages·2001·67.602 MB·English

by  Robert P. Geraci, Michael Khodarkovsky

OfReligion and Empire

OJ Religion

and Empire

Missions, Conversion, and Tolerance
in Tsarist Russia
Edited by
P.
RoBERT GERACI and
MICHAEL KHoDARKOVSKY
CoRNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Ithaca and London
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Ofreligion and empire : missions, conversion, and tolerance in Tsarist
Russia I edited by Robert P. Geraci and Michael Khodarkovsky.
p. em.
Includes index.
ISBN o-8014-3327-4 (alk. paper)-ISBN o-8oq-87o3-X (pbk. :
alk. paper)
1. Russia-Religion. 2. Russia-Church history. 3· Religion and
state-Russia-History. 4· Church and state-Russia-History. 5·
Russkaia pravoslavnaia tserkov'-History. I. Geraci, Robert P.
II. Khodarkovsky, Michael, 1955­
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Contents

Introduction 1
PART I THE WESTERN REGIONS: CHRISTIANS AND jEWS
1. Rescuing the Orthodox: The Church Policies of
Archbishop Manasii of Kholmogory, 1682-1702 19
GEORG MICHELS
2. Orthodox Missionaries and "Orthodox Heretics"
in Russia, 1886-1917 38
J. EUGENE CLAY
3· Between Rome and Tsargrad: The Uniate Church
in Imperial Russia 70
THEODORE R. WEEKS
4· State Policies and the Conversion ofjews in Imperial
Russia 92
jOHN D. KLIER
PART II CoNVERTING ANIMISTS AND BuDDHISTS
5· The Conversion of Non-Christians in Early Modern
Russia 115
MICHAEL KHODARKOVSKY
6. Big Candles and "Internal Conversion": The Mari
Animist Reformation and Its Russian Appropriations 144
PAUL w. WERTH
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7. Russian Orthodox Missionaries at Home and Abroad:
The Case of Siberian and Alaskan Indigenous Peoples 173
SERGEI KAN
8. The Orthodox Church, Lamaism, and Shamanism
among the Buriats and Kalmyks, 1825-1925 201
DITTMAR SCHORKOWITZ
PART III FACING ISLAM
g. Colonial Dilemmas: Russian Policies in the Muslim
Caucasus 229
FIROUZEH MosTASHARI
10. The Role ofTatar and Kriashen Women in the
Transmission of Islamic Knowledge, ·18oo-187o
AGNES KEFELI
11. Going Abroad or Going to Russia? Orthodox
Missionaries in the Kazakh Steppe, 1881-1917 274
RoBERT P. GERACI
12. Conversion to the New Faith: Marxism-Leninism
and Muslims in the Soviet Empire 311
SHOSHANA KELLER
Conclusion 335
Notes on Contributors 345
Index 349
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