Why would native women of the Russian Far East undergo Orthodox baptism?
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Native Siberian women were often in forced or voluntary relationships with Russian Cossacks. Baptizing these women pleased the Church, which earned souls, and their new husbands, who got assurance that their future children would be considered Russian. The Empire didn't lose fur income as it would from the baptism of native men, so it too was happy with this outcome.
Sources: Slezkine, "Arctic Mirrors", pp. 43-44; Miller, "Kodiak Kreol", pp. 15.
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To some, religion is very import.
In an era when opportunities for women were significantly less than those for men, women often had to marry to ensure their own survival. Women had much less freedoms than they do now.
Mixed religious marriages were not well tolerated. For the sake of harmony, social cohesion and survival it was easier to adopt the religion of the person one was marrying.
If the local men were converting to orthodoxy, then that's what the women did.
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