Description

This short work gives detailed advice for Russian Orthodox parish priests working in Siberia to assist them in relating to peoples of other faiths and other types of Christianity. The booklet was published by the Diocese of Tobolsk, in western Siberia. Priests serving in this part of Siberia were likely to be in contact with native Buryat people, who were primarily Buddhist, and with Old Believers (the “schismatics” of the booklet’s title), who practiced a form of Orthodoxy that had been outlawed by the Russian state in the mid-17th ...