Periodical and non-periodical publications of spiritual Christians of the Molokans of the beginning of the XX century as a source on the history of Molokanism

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to give a general overview of narrative sources of internal origin on the history of the religious movement of spiritual Christians of Molokans for 1905-1917, to establish the main types of these sources. The relevance of the article is due to the lack of source studies on the history of Molokanism, with the exception of brief reviews in dissertation research and monographs.

Keywords

• molokans
• spiritual christians
• old russian sectarianism
• sectarianism
• sects
• sectarian journals
• sources on the history of sectarianism
• a. s. prokhanov