СОЦИАЛЬНО-ПОЛИТИЧЕСКИЙ АУДИТ МЕЖКОНФЕССИОНАЛЬНЫХ ОТНОШЕНИЙ НА ПОСТСОВЕТСКОМ ПРОСТРАНСТВЕ

Abstract

The relevance of this study lies in the study of social patterns in the development of relations between confessional communities, the forms of manifestation of these patterns associated with the assimilation, preservation and dissemination of religious ideas, ideas, norms and values. The theoretical value of the article lies in the fact that it actualizes the issues of confessional and interfaith relations in the post-Soviet period, the problems of the development of Orthodox culture and philosophical religious thought as a basis for a deeper spread of Christian social teaching in Russia. The paper defines the role of the Russian Orthodox Church during the period of its depopularization, considers a number of reasons for the decline in the number of believers and the decline in the popularity of the ROC in general and among young people in particular: bureaucratization, theocracy – the merger of the state and the church, the passive policy of the church in matters of popularizing Orthodoxy. The main attention is paid to the need to create a social concept of the Russian Orthodox Church as the main basic position on the relationship between church, state and society. The article highlights the views of Russian and foreign writers, theologians and philosophers I. Ilyin, P. Chaadaev, A. de Kustin, F. Dostoevsky, A. Solzhenitsyn, M. Marle, H. Kung, on the problems of church totalitarianism and "clerical aristocracy", issues of influence and mutual influence of various currents of Christianity on the formation of national character, moral-moral and spiritual values of a person, history of difficult relations between Orthodoxy and Catholicism, Orthodoxy and Soviet power. The value of the article lies in the fact that it raises practical issues of rapprochement of Christian confessions (ecumenism) in the field of interfaith relations, the need for such unity not to the detriment of the confessional, regional national specificity of Christianity, it notes a global trend towards a decrease in the role of religious institutions in the minds of people and the life of society – secularization and its causes: globalization, urbanization, the development of science and education, the development of material values and technological progress