Yayın Türü	Makale
Öğretim Elemanı	Durmuş Arık, Prof. Dr.
Yayın Adı	Tatar Türkleri Arasında Hristiyanlar: Kreşinler
Dergi Adı	Ankara Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi
Anabilim Dalı	Dinler Tarihi
Temel Alan	Geleneksel Türk Dini
Basım Yeri	Ankara
Yıl	2008
Cilt ve Sayı	XLIX sy. 2
Sayfa Aralığı	ss. 57-75
Etiketler	Tatar Turks, Christianity, Kryashens, Christian Turkish Community
Pdf Bağlantısı	Pdf
Özet	Christians among Tatar Turks: Kryashens. Tsarist Russia, from the middle of the 16th to the early in 20 th century, applied policies of Russifıcation and Christianization to the non-Russian nations living in the area of Volga-Ural region. Due to this policies, beside Finno-Ugrians (Mari, Mordvins, and Udmurts), some groups of Chuvashes and Tatars converted to Christianity and Russifıed. To the present day, the evaluations about the Kryashens showed that they converted to Christianity by the result of this policies. Therefore, they have been considered "Christianized Tatars". The present paper aims to dea! with the relations of Kryashens with Tatars, and their situations among Tatars according to researchs and observations made by the author in July and August of 2008 in Tatarstan. Furthermore, this paper gives place to the evaluations of some Kryashens' intellectuals about theruself from ethnic and cultural point of view