«Мы теперь перед собой видим две церкви». Переходы в старообрядчество Белокриницкого согласия и особенности мультиправославного религиозного ландшафта после 1905 года

Государство, религия, церковь в России и за рубежом. 2020. № No 38(2). С. 345–376.

Kuziner I.

 This article analyzes an almost unprecedented religious situation, which emerged after the 1905 “Edict of Toleration.” The Edict set in motion a number of processes in Russian religious landscape and created a legal foundation of what may be called a situation of multi-Orthodoxy. The author explores the legal co-existence of two church hierarchies who called themselves Orthodox: Russian Synodal Orthodox Church and Old Believers’ Church of Belokrinitsa agreement. The Edict and the following Circular no. 4628 marked a turning point for religious seekers who considered conversion from one church to another. A number of requests for re-affiliation, sent to Belokrinitsa’s archbishop from representatives of various religious groups, mostly from the Synodal Church, sheds a light on how this situation of multi-Orthodoxy operated, how it was regulated and what were the contradictions emerging on the boundaries of these two canonical domains. 

Keywords: Old Belief, веротерпимость, religious tolerance, старообрядцы, late Russian Empire, поздняя Российская империя, Belokrinitsa hierarchy, белокриницкая иерархия

Publication based on the results of: Transformation of Regimes of Governing Diversity: Political Identity on the Edge of Post-Imperial and Post-Colonial Paradigms (2021)