Regulating Old Believer Marriage
Ritual, Legality, and Conversion in Nicholas Fs Russia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5046966 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Irina Paert (0000-0002-7238-2584, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 555-576 |
| Publication date | 2004-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Slavic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-6779 • E-ISSN: 2325-7784 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1520344 |
| OpenAlex | W2320712270 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 8 |
In this article, Irina Paert reexamines the relationship between Old Believers and officialdom. She focuses on the impact the criminalization of Old Believer marriages had on dissenting communities in Nicholas I's Russia (1825-55). Although Paert emphasizes the difference between Old Believer and official approaches to marriage, she also draws attention to endemic conflicts and contradictions within the local and central governments regarding the implementation of policies, and she identifies a variety of grass-root responses to these problems. In addition to ecclesiological disagreements between different branches of Old Belief, conflicts existed within specific congregations, which were divided along class and gender lines. Paert thus raises new questions about the boundaries separating the official culture from that of religious dissent, and Orthodox from Old Believer communities, and she questions the persistent representation of the Old Believer community as a "counter-society
Criminalization · Dissent · Dissenting opinion · Political economy · Political science · Principle of legality · Representation (politics · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Law · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2022 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |