religious conversion

“Now We See Two Churches…” Conversions to the Old Believer’s Church of Belokrinitsa Agreement and Multi-Orthodoxy Religious Landscape after 1905

This article analyzes an almost unprecedented religious situation, which emerged after the 1905 “Edict of Toleration.” The Edict set in motion a number of processes in Russian religious landscape and created a legal foundation of what may be called a situation of multi‑ Orthodoxy. The author explores the legal co‑existence of two church hierarchies who called themselves Orthodox: Russian Synodal Orthodox Church and Old Believers’ Church of Belokrinitsa agreement. The Edict and the following Circular no.

The Problem of Religious Conversion on the Example of Phenomenological Movement in Germany

This article looks at the origins of phenomenological investigations into the problem of religion. Reinach’s Aufzeichnungen drew the attention of Göttingen phenomenologists toward religious experience; at the same time the philosophical discussion was accompanied by the active interest of Husserl’s students in Christianity. This article summarizes psychological research into the problem of religious conversion before reconstructing the history of phenomenological religiosity.