Religious education and consolidation processes among the baptized Tatars uring the second half of the XVI - XVIII centuries
The article deals with the efhnoconfessional processes taking place among ethnoreligious ‘novokreschens’ of the Middle Volga region in the second half of the XVI - XVIII centuries, which led to formation of a special ‘Kryashen’ identity. This work analyzed the influence of the religious policy of the state and the missionary movement of the Orthodox Church on the consolidation of process among the baptized Tatars, the formation of their particular model of religious syncretism.