Chapter 7. Religion and marriage in early 20th century Ekaterinburg, Russia: a microdata analysis

Glavatskaya, Elena; Bobitsky, A. V.; Zabolotnykh, Elizaveta; Vishnevskaya, A.

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“…Orthodox then tended to marry early, 40 as it has been estimated elsewhere in Russia at that period, for example in Ekaterinburg over the period 1907-1919, where the majority of a sample of 285 men and women married at the age of 19. 41 Until 1894, Old Believer men did marry slightly younger (4 months on average) than Orthodox, but the age difference between bride and groom was smaller for Old Believers than for Orthodox, so that Old Believer women married at the same age as Orthodox women. After 1894, Old Believer men married slightly older (7 months on average) than Orthodox men and women only 3 months older than Orthodox women.…”

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Between Economy and Social Coercion: Nuptiality in Transition. The Case of the Don Army Territory (Southern Russia), 1867–1916

Bonneuil

Fursa

2022

Journal of Family History

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The nuptiality transition in the Don Army Territory 1867–1916 depended on residence, economy, and religion. In rural areas, population growth and the scarcity of good land undermined the Orthodox tradition, though it was defended by the Church; rural Armenian-Gregorians persisted in early marriage, unlike Old Believers, Buddhists, and Lutherans. In cities, Armenian-Gregorians and Jews, unlike Catholics, adopted late marriage. Age at marriage among Orthodox was slightly later in cities and their hinterlands, against the tradition that Church conservatism favored. The different trajectories of nuptiality reveal a struggle between religion, economics, and urban life, making nuptiality a scene of contradictory influences.

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Between Economy and Social Coercion: Nuptiality in Transition. The Case of the Don Army Territory (Southern Russia), 1867–1916

Bonneuil

Fursa

2022

Journal of Family History

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“…We have presented results from the computerized analyses of their parish records, including marriage activities, age at first marriage with special attention to gender, social status and migration as determinants of marriage timing. We also addressed the issue of remarriage and conversion in connection with marriage, and argue that it was a sign of social lifting and abandoning of religious endogamy, signaling modernization of the marriage institution in early 20th-century Russia (Borovik, 2018(Borovik, , 2019bGlavatskaya & Borovik, 2019;Palkin & Borovik, 2019).…”

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2023

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In recent years the development of historical databases reconstructing the lives of large populations accelerated. These considerable investments of time and money have greatly expanded possibilities for new research in history, demography, sociology, economics, and other disciplines. This special issue describes the content and design of 23 important historical databases. Authors were given the freedom to discuss a range of practical and technical decisions from evaluating archival sources to crowdsourcing data entry. The most common issue is nominative record linkage, but we find different choices between semi-automatic and fully automatic linkage techniques and various approaches for connecting diverse sources. Some databases describe special problems, like linking Chinese names, handwritten text recognition or the construction of a release in IDS-format. Other databases offer detailed descriptions of sources or discuss prospects for including new datasets.

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“…Russian legislation regulated the parish registers and their accuracy. The religious community board had to check and verify the books frequently and religious leaders and communities were to be fined when any disorder was found in the records (Glavatskaya & Borovik, 2019) and their quality improved significantly from the mid-19th century onwards (Mironov, 2007).…”

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The Ural Population Project. Demography and Culture From Microdata in a European-Asian Border Region

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Borovik

Thorvaldsen

2022

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The Ural Population Project (URAPP) is built from individual level data transcriptions of 19th- to early 20th-century parish records and mid-19th-century census-like tax revisions manuscripts. This article discusses the source material, the contents, the history of creation and the strategy of the URAPP database and the outcome of the main research topics so far, including historical demography, Jewish studies, indigenous studies and studies of religious minorities in the Urals and Siberia. Our studies of the ethno-religious cultural landscape of the Urals and northwestern Siberia as well as participation in population history projects was more vital backgrounds than the traditional focus on aggregates. The over 65,000 vital events transcribed from parish records of Russian Orthodox Churches and minority religions in and around Ekaterinburg have been the basis for studies of mortality, nuptiality, religion and other characteristics. We found that the Jewish population kept their traditions and connections with relatives in the Pale of Settlement. Prisoners of WWI usually marrying within their own religious group. Infant mortality in Ekaterinburg was lower among Jews and the Catholics, minorities with higher education and western background, while the Orthodox majority exposed their newborn to extremely tough baptism. The burial records show cases of the Spanish flu in 1918–1919, but on a lower level than in the West, supporting recent theories that estimates of flu mortality may be too high. Based on the tax revisions, polygyny was officially recognized among the indigenous Siberian people. The strategy of the URAPP project has evolved from transcribing microdata about minorities towards covering the whole population.

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Chapter 7. Religion and marriage in early 20th century Ekaterinburg, Russia: a microdata analysis

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Between Economy and Social Coercion: Nuptiality in Transition. The Case of the Don Army Territory (Southern Russia), 1867–1916

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