Russian spiritual ravines: Old Believers-Wanderers and the grassroots religious landscape of the late Russian Empire
The article is devoted to analyzing the religious landscape of the late Russian Empire. It deals with how this landscape was seen from a grassroots perspective, namely from the perspective of the followers of one of the most radical movements of the Old Faith - the Old Believers-Wanderers. In the ni...
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Cahiers d’histoire russe, est-européenne, caucasienne et centrasiatique
2025
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| Sarrera elektronikoa: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Gaia: | The article is devoted to analyzing the religious landscape of the late Russian Empire. It deals with how this landscape was seen from a grassroots perspective, namely from the perspective of the followers of one of the most radical movements of the Old Faith - the Old Believers-Wanderers. In the nineteenth century, Wanderers adopted a special mode of religious adherence which allowed the believer, at various periods of their life, to be affiliated relatively uncontroversially with the dominant Orthodox Church while remaining a Wanderer. The focus on this ambivalence allows both to make visible the precariousness of the boundaries of the clearly structured religious hierarchies of the empire and to demonstrate the complex and heterogeneous social reality of the Russian Empire that made this situation of ambivalence possible. |
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