Покаяние в России в XVIII в.

Вопросы истории. 2017. № 6. С. 81–97.

Марасинова Е. Н.

This study focuses on the process by which the state actively came to rely on church practices, religious world-views and values in prosecuting grave felonies that were committed by lay pcople.The author’s conclusions are based on a wide range of published and archival sources and, in particular, the collections of confirmations of Catherine II on the sentences handed down by the Senate for the murders. No study has been dedicated to this specific topic, even as it promises to help scholars reinterpret such important conceptual problems as the relationship between church and state; mechanisms of social control; the role of the monarch’s personality in shaping government policy; and the compatibility, as contemporaries perceived it, between God’s commandments and state law.

Keywords: секуляризация, закон, общественное сознание, социальный контроль, смертная казнь, death, law, social control, repentance, покаяние