title: Religious Conversion as a Criterion for the Efficiency of Management Strategies in Late Imperial Russia
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metadata.value: Isaeva, Valentina B.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-01-17T12:10:23Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-01-17T12:10:23Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2019-12
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metadata.value: Isaeva V. B. Religious Conversion as a Criterion for the Efficiency of Management Strategies in Late Imperial Russia. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2019, vol. 64, iss. 4, рр. 1257–1271.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2019.406
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/16923
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article considers forms, methods and factors of religious conversion as the criteria for the
  efficiency of the management strategies used by the tsarist authorities in late Imperial Russia.
  Religious conversion is interpreted within the framework of the legal regulation system of religions
  which was adopted in the 1830–1850s, and its empirical forms are identified. Religious
  conversion is defined as a transition from the “foreign religions” to Orthodox Christianity and
  a withdrawal from Orthodox Christianity to the “foreign religions”. Two forms of conversion
  are revealed: orthodoxization and apostasy. In the research the following factors of religious
  conversion are brought out: a) loyalty to the central government; b) cultural affinity of the
  ethnic group to the Russians; c) methods of religious conversion. Five types of methods are
  classified: 1) forced (the elimination of the church organization, repressions of believers and/
  or clergy); 2) economic (material incentives); 3) educational (conversion through the native
  language of the believers, the development of their culture); 4) recruitment (the use of special
  social and communication strategies); 5) natural (population mixing, inter-ethnic marriages).
  Based on the reports of the Chief Procurator of the Synod, data from the census of 1897, and
  other sources the dynamics of religious conversion for 54 years (1860–1914) are analyzed, and
  its examination by denominations by decades is done. The author concludes that religious
  conversion indicates certain management strategies — forced integration, gradual acculturation,
  or preservation of the status quo; their efficiency, existence or absence of the inter-ethnic
  tensions.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: This article was prepared with the support of grant No. 15-18-00119 of the Russian Science Foundation.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 64; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: religious conversion
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian Empire
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: methods of religious conversion
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: factors of religious conversion
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: forms of religious conversion
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: statistics of religious conversion
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Religious Conversion as a Criterion for the Efficiency of Management Strategies in Late Imperial Russia
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metadata.value: Article
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