Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2017
Abstract
In the 1860s Courland had become one of the first and the most significant centres of the movement of Baptism in the Russian Empire. The article provides an overview of the Baptist activities in Courland up to 1879, namely, up to the moment they were legally acknowledged.
The author also examines the facilitating factor and the obstacles regarding the dissemination of the new religious movement. The author questions, whether the establishment of the first Baptist parishes in Courland can be related to their religious faith, dissatisfaction with their social status or the political protest against the monopoly of the Ev.
Lutheran Church on the Baltic Provinces of the Russian Empire.