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▪ Mari religion
      (Mari: “Big Candle”), pacifist and theocratic movement among the Mari (or Cheremis), a Finno-Ugric tribal people living chiefly in Mari republic, Russia. The emergence of the cult around 1870 was an attempt by the Mari—who were nominally Christianized during the 16th–19th centuries—to resist Russian acculturation by a synthesis of their own religion with Christian elements.

      The movement takes its name from the large candle central to its worship. The ritual is conducted in houses or forest groves, without priests or images. An ascetic ethic includes taboos on certain foods and stimulants and enjoins love, tolerance, respect for nature, and rejection of modern goods and medicine. Adherents believe that Christ was the greatest of prophets. Ancient marriage ceremonies, the cult of the dead, and mythology of the spirit world represent the Mari element in the religion, which has resisted the disapproval of both tsarist and Soviet governments.

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Universalium. 2010.

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