THE PROBLEMS OF THE STUDY OF THE PEASANTRY RELIGIOUSNESS IN THE LAST QUARTER OF XIX-th– EARLY XX-th CENTURIES REVISITED (BASED ON THE MATERIALS OF TAMBOV DIOCESE)

Author(s):  I.S. Sviridov, Lipetsk State Pedagogical University named after P.P. Semenov-Tyan-Shansky, Lipetsk, Russia, ilya.sviridov.1992@mail.ru

Issue:  Volume 45, №1

Rubric:  Topical issues of russian history

Annotation:  The relevance of the research topic is due to the increased interest in the spiritual area of life in contempo-rary Russian society, prompting experts to refer to the analysis of the spiritual condition of the Russian peasantry in XIX-th–XX-th centuries. The article examines the state of religiosity of Russian peasants in the Tambov diocese on the basis of archival statistics. In the analysis of the statistical material obtained from the confessional statements of the three churches of the Tambov diocese, stored in the State archive of the Tambov region, proved that the rural Church attended and participated in the sacraments of confes-sion and communion more often women farmers than men. For comparisons have been given information about peasant flock from Ryazan province for 1865. It is established that a high percentage of the religi-osity of the rural population was due to the fact that religion was the very essence of perception of the peasantry. The only negative point of the religious life of the peasantry was the great-existed in the village a fee for religious rites, highly disturbed as the peasantry and parish clergy due to the low material support of the last government. It has found out that in the beginning of the changes in parish life (includ-ing doing most of the Church service, change the image of the parish priest) under the influence of the first Russian revolution of 1905-1907 the parish priest was estranged from his peasant flock, but the relig-iosity of the rural population remained at the same high level as in the late nineteenth century. This, in particular, was evident in the case of the protection of the peasants in their rural pastors from the attacks of the revolutionaries and agitators.

Keywords:  religion, confession, communion, the fee for religious rites, the parish relationship

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