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International audience This article concentrates of the historiography of the Evangelisation of the Russian North: while at the very beginning several serious scholars wrote about the missions, most of this literature is not really scientific, for it is strongly biased on the behalf of Christianity...

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Main Author: Toulouze, Eva
Other Authors: Centre de recherches Europes-Eurasie (CREE EA 4513), Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Inalco), Pomozi Péter
Format: Book Part
Language:English
Published: HAL CCSD 2008
Subjects:
missionnaries
missions
conversion
school
Protestants
Orthodoxs
soviet ideology
missionary journals
[SHS.ANTHRO-SE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Social Anthropology and ethnology
[SHS.RELIG]Humanities and Social Sciences/Religions
Endeavour
khanty
nenets
Russian North
Online Access:https://hal-inalco.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01276752
https://hal-inalco.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01276752/document
https://hal-inalco.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01276752/file/Toulouze%20PJ60%20korr%2020080919-1.pdf
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Summary:International audience This article concentrates of the historiography of the Evangelisation of the Russian North: while at the very beginning several serious scholars wrote about the missions, most of this literature is not really scientific, for it is strongly biased on the behalf of Christianity (orthodox journals etc.). Later, the Soviet regime did not encourage the study of religious issues and it was compulsory to disparage any religious endeavour. The later period is more favourable to scientific approaches, although the hagiographic aspect is to be noticed. Still important documents have been published in Russia and the possibilities of making serious scholar work increase. Cet article se concentre sur l'historiographie de l'évangélisation du grand Nord russe: si au tout début, des chercheurs sérieux ont écrit sur les missions, la plupart de cette littérature n'est pas réellement scientifique, car elle penche fortement vers l'orthodoxie. Plus tard, le régime soviétique n'encourageait pas l'étude des questions religieuses, et il était obligatoire de déprécier toute oeuvre de l'Eglise. La dernière période est plus propice à une approche scientifique, bien que nous y retrouvions une tendance à l'hagiographie. Pourtant, d'importants documents ont été publiés en Russie et augmentent les possibilités de faire du travail scientifique réel.

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