Chapter Six. Big Candles and "Internal Conversion": The Mari Animist Reformation and Its Russian Appropriations

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. I. The Western Regions: Christians and Jews
5. Chapter One. Rescuing the Orthodox: The Church Policies of Archbishop Afanasii of Kholmogory, 1682-1702 19
6. Chapter Two. Orthodox Missionaries and "Orthodox Heretics" in Russia, 1886-1917 38
7. Chapter Three. Between Rome and Tsargrad: The Uniate Church in Imperial Russia 70
8. Chapter Four. State Policies and the Conversion of Jews in Imperial Russia 92
9. II. Converting Animists and Buddhists
10. Chapter Five. The Conversion of Non-Christians in Early Modern Russia 115
11. Chapter Six. Big Candles and "Internal Conversion": The Mari Animist Reformation and Its Russian Appropriations 144
12. Chapter Seven. Russian Orthodox Missionaries at Home and Abroad: The Case of Siberian and Alaskan Indigenous Peoples 173
13. Chapter Eight. The Orthodox Church, Lamaism, and Shamanism among the Buriats and Kalmyks, 1825-1925 201
14. III. Facing Islam
15. Chapter Nine. Colonial Dilemmas: Russian Policies in the Muslim Caucasus 229
16. Chapter Ten. The Role of Tatar and Kriashen Women in the Transmission of Islamic Knowledge, 1800-1870 250
17. Chapter Eleven. Going Abroad or Going to Russia? Orthodox Missionaries in the Kazakh Steppe, 1881-1917 274
18. Chapter Twelve. Conversion to the New Faith: Marxism-Leninism and Muslims in the Soviet Empire 311
19. Conclusion 335
20. Notes on Contributors 345
21. Index 349