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Article http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/jhass.2023.03.027

A Study of Russian Policy towards Local Church Administration in the Caucasus in the 19th Century

Meng Li

College of Law and History, Inner Mongolia Minzu University, Tongliao, Inner Mongolia, China.

*Corresponding author: Meng Li

Published: May 5,2023

Abstract

In the 1860s, when the Russian conquest of the Caucasus was almost complete, the regional objective shifted from advancing geostrategy to governing the frontier. The previous system of church administration was not conducive to the governance of the imperial frontier, and along with the centralisation and integration of the local administrative, judicial and economic spheres, the religious sphere inevitably became the object of reform. Through the centralisation of church administration, Russia gradually abolished local church autonomy, established an effective system of church regulation and achieved its goals of centralisation, unification and localisation. The policy of local church control in Russia was formed to deprive the local churches of the potential to organise anti-Russian forces and to integrate them into the cultural and political space of the Empire. The result of the policy of pagan control was a change in the relationship between the state and the local churches, a strengthening of imperial control over the local churches and the construction of a system of religious regulation conducive to the governance of Russia's Caucasian frontier.

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How to cite this paper

A Study of Russian Policy towards Local Church Administration in the Caucasus in the 19th Century

How to cite this paper: Meng Li. (2023) A Study of Russian Policy towards Local Church Administration in the Caucasus in the 19th Century. Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Science7(3), 619-622.

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.26855/jhass.2023.03.027