This book explores the history and evolution of Inochentism, a
controversial new religious movement that emerged in the Russian
and Romanian borderlands of what is now Moldova and Ukraine in the
context of the Russian revolutionary period. Inochentism centres
around the charismatic preaching of Inochentie, a monk of the
Orthodox Church, who inspired an apocalyptic movement that was soon
labelled heretical by the Orthodox Church and persecuted as
socially and politically subversive by Soviet and Romanian state
authorities. Inochentism and Orthodox Christianity charts the
emergence and development of Inochentism through the twentieth
century based on hagiographies, oral testimonies, press reports,
state legislation and a wealth of previously unstudied police and
secret police archival material. Focusing on the role that
religious persecution and social marginalization played in the
transformation of this understudied and much vilified group, the
author explores a series of counter-narratives that challenge the
mainstream historiography of the movement and highlight the
significance of the concept of 'liminality' in relation to the
study of new religious movements and Orthodoxy. This book
constitutes a systematic historical study of an Eastern European
'home-grown' religious movement taking a 'grass-roots' approach to
the problem of minority religious identities in twentieth century
Eastern Europe. Consequently, it will be of great interest to
scholars of new religions movements, religious history and Russian
and Eastern European studies.
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