CRIMINALS «AGAINST BELIEF »? RELIGIOUS CRIMES AMONG PEASANTS (SECOND HALF XIX – BEGINNING OF XX CENTURY)

CRIMINALS «AGAINST BELIEF »? RELIGIOUS CRIMES AMONG PEASANTS (SECOND HALF XIX – BEGINNING OF XX CENTURY)

Authors

  • Д.А. Комаров

Keywords:

religious behaviour, religiousness, Russian orthodox peasantry, religious crimes, blasphemy, sacrilege

Abstract

The article is devoted to research of religious crimes among Russian orthodox peasantry of second half XIX – beginning of XX century. On the basis of statistical and archival materials the author has come to conclusion, that the ma-jority of such crimes were committed because of irascibility and drunkenness and was not the evidence of peasant’s secularity or anticlericalism

Published

2023-05-16
Loading...