SOCB51H3 Chapter Notes -Doukhobor, Russian Orthodox Church, Ranter
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May 1 1932 arrested nude paraders from the sons of freedom sect of the doukbor community in bc and subsequent arrests later. By mid june, 600 adult protesters had been arrested charged with and convicted of public nudity and sentenced to the maximum penalty of three years in jail. The freedomite children many of whom had been taken into custody were removed from their homes and put into orphanages industrial school or fosterage at the coast and wanted to resocialize them to canadian ways. Nudity is an old form of both religious expression and protest against civic authority. Ranters systematically proclaimed the right of natural man to behave naturally. In word and deed some of them deliberately flouted the inhibitions which the puritan ethic was imposing. Millenarian groups from ranter and quaker meets practiced nudity for theological conviction and community solidarity. Doukhobors came to canada in 1899 descendents of a group that had broken away from the.
