Vestnik of Orenburg State Pedagogical University. Electronic Scientific Journal. 2018. № 1 (25). P. 81—89
07.00.00 HISTORICAL SCIENCES AND ARCHEOLOGY
UDC 94(47)“1905/1917”
Dzhundzhuzov Stepan Viktorovich, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor
Orenburg State Pedagogical University
TRANSITION TO ISLAM OF THE ORENBURG COSSACKS-NAGAIBAKS AS A CRISIS PHENOMENON IN THE IMPERIAL POLICY OF RELIGIOUS ACCULTURATION
Abstract
Published on April 17, 1905, the decree “On strengthening the beginnings of religious tolerance” testified to the crisis of the imperial policy of religious acculturation, aimed at spreading Orthodoxy among the alien population of Russia. The article, on the example of Nagaibaks, who were Cossacks of the Orenburg Cossack Host, considers the legal regulation of the process of converting baptized “aliens” in the religion of non-Christian confession. The state and the church tried to prevent the transfer of Nagaibaks to Islam through legal restrictions, provided by law. But, as time showed, the “Islamic choice” was irreversible. The descendants of Nagaibaks converted to Islam call themselves Tatars of the Muslim confession.
Key words
Religious tolerance, Islam, Nagaibaks, church, Christianity, acculturation.
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Dzhundzhuzov S. V. Transition to Islam of the Orenburg Cossacks-Nagaibaks as a crisis phenomenon in the imperial policy of religious acculturation. Vestnik of Orenburg State Pedagogical University. Electronic Scientific Journal, 2018, no. 1 (25), pp. 81—89. DOI: https://doi.org/10.32516/2303-9922.2018.25.8.