The term Molokan is an exonym used by their Orthodox neighbors. Members tend to identify themselves as Spiritual Christians (духовные христиане, dukhovnye khristiane). The specific beliefs and practices varied sharply between the various sects of Molokans.

The Russian Molokans, also called Molokan Spiritual Jumpers, Spiritual Christians of the Sect of Jumper, or Milk Drinkers, were a Russian peasant group that dissented from the Russian Orthodox Church at least as far back as the seventeenth century.

THE TRUE MOLOKAN: A Complete Molokan History Three years in the making, this book was written by George W. Mohoff and is the most in-depth comprehensive book ever written about the Molokans.

As of 2022, there are 2,000 Molokans in Armenia. Molokans have a communal identity and practice endogamy. The Molokan community in Armenia is the most active of the Russian sectarian communities in the Caucasus.

Molokans are a Russian fundamentalist Christian sect, with their roots tracing back to the 18th century. Their formation was partly in response to the Russian Orthodox Church’s rigid liturgical practices, advocating a return to the practices of the early Christians.

Molokans, like the Doukhobors, are sectarian Bible-centered Christians who evolved from Spiritual Christian Russian peasants who refused to join the Russian Orthodox Church in the 1600s. A Russian who was not Orthodox was "sectarian". During the 1800s both sects became widespread in Southern Russia.

Oct 29, 2022 · Traditionally in historiography, Molokan Spiritual Christianity refers to the old Russian sectarianism along with Dukhobors, Subbotniks (Sabbatarians), Khlysts, Skoptsy, and some other movements. There are several versions …

Within a generation, Spiritual Christianity had split into two major movements: Dukhobors, who came to place more emphasis on the direct leading of the Holy Spirit than on the Scriptures, and Molokans, who insisted on the authority of the Bible, the written Word of God.

Jan 22, 2013 · No news about Molokan homes being damaged, but local TV news shows large hail and extensive damages. Sept 4: May 1, '08: Baku Molokan Cemetery destroyed! — Roads, houses built on Molokan graves

The Molokans are a Russian fundamental Christian sect. Numbering perhaps as many as a million prior to the Russian Revolution, about thirty-five hundred Molokans immigrated to the United States between 1901 and 1911 to seek religious freedom and economic opportunity and to escape military service in the Russian Empire.