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The Chlysty were a Siberian underground sect in the 18th, 19th and early 20th century that split off from the Russian Orthodox Church.
The Chlysty practised the attainment of divine grace through sin in ecstatic rituals that sometimes seem to have turned into mass orgies.
Secret Chlysty cells existed throughout pre-revolutionary Russia; they were most common in the factories of the Perm district.
www.yourencyclopedia.net /chlysty.html   (188 words)

  
 Chlysty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Chlysty practised the attainment of divine grace through sin in ecstatic rituals that sometimes seem to have turned intomass orgies.
Secret Chlysty cells existed throughoutpre-revolutionary Russia ; they were most common in the factories of the Perm district.
Grigori Rasputin was reputed to have, at some stage, been aChlyst, and to have led some sort of secret Chlysty cell among the society ladies of Saint Petersburg.
www.therfcc.org /chlysty-186861.html   (139 words)

  
 Skoptzy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
They were not pessimists, desiring the end of the species, but aim rather at the perfection of the individual.
Their religious ceremonies include hymn-singing, addresses and frenzied dancing ending in ecstasy, like that of the Chlysty and the Muslim whirling dervishes.
Strict oaths of secrecy were demanded from all members, who form a kind of mutual-aid association.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Skoptzy   (898 words)

  
 Chlysty Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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 Univ. Zürich - Hist. Seminar: Vorlesungsverzeichnis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Jahrhunderts hervorgegangen, zeichnen sich die Altgläubigen vor allem durch ihre Ablehnung des orthodoxen Klerus und eine asketische Lebensweise aus.
Die Bruderschaften, genannt "Schiffe", der Chlysty, eine ebenfalls in Zeiten religiöser Auseinandersetzungen des 17.
Neben äusserer Loyalität zur orthodoxen Kirche praktizierten die Chlysty ihre "private" Religiosität ausserhalb von Kirche und Liturgie — während ekstatischer Tänze und Gesänge.
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