Abstract
The purpose of the study is to substantiate the fundamental correlation between the spiritual health of the society and civil peace and harmony in the country, as well as to analyse the efficiency of teaching religious law disciplines in the context of the formation of major general cultural competencies in law students. The methodological basis of the study was represented by the civilisational approach, the dialectical method, general logical methods as well as the integrative approach that made it possible to combine legal and religious aspects within the framework of special interdisciplinary academic disciplines. Observation and interviewing techniques were also used. It was found out in the course of the study that one of the most important components of countering external and internal threats to the national security is one’s spiritual and moral foundations that must be formed in the student environment in the process of educational work, in particular, within the framework of teaching special religious law disciplines. They should be conceptually based on the postulate that religion, culture and law constitute a single civilisational aggregate characterised by complex internal interrelations and patterns of development. Students should realise that the knowledge of these laws makes it possible to understand that, despite the difference in civilisational models, there exists a fundamental affinity in the basic principles of different religious confessions and basic cultural aspirations of various nations. The novelty of the work is accounted for by the conclusion that the study of spiritual and moral foundations of the existing religious and non-religious spiritual doctrines, as well as the fundamental links between religion and law, contributes to the formation of basic general cultural competencies in students, as well as positive value attitudes.
Highlights
The relevance of the research is accounted for by the importance of the issues involving the formation of spiritual and moral potential of young people of Russia in the conditions of moral and ideological crisis, devaluation of moral values, social anomie
One of the key strategic planning documents that set the development of our country for the coming years is the National security strategy of the Russian Federation which outlines, as one of the core threats in the sphere of culture, erosion of the traditional Russian spiritual and moral values and weakening of the unity of the multinational Russian Federation through external cultural and informational expansion
The authors do not dispute the fact that spiritual/moral expansion is one of the most efficient methods of geopolitical expansion used by the developed countries and that it is necessary to oppose it in order to ensure Russia’s national security
Summary
The relevance of the research is accounted for by the importance of the issues involving the formation of spiritual and moral potential of young people of Russia in the conditions of moral and ideological crisis, devaluation of moral values, social anomie. One of the key strategic planning documents that set the development of our country for the coming years is the National security strategy of the Russian Federation (approved by Presidential Decree No 683 as of 31.12.2015) which outlines, as one of the core threats in the sphere of culture, erosion of the traditional Russian spiritual and moral values and weakening of the unity of the multinational Russian Federation through external cultural and informational expansion (clause 79 of the Strategy). Spiritual “expansion” should not be regarded as a benefit (if undertaken on our part) or evil (if enforced by the others) This is a factor to be taken into account for maintaining the national security, and a method to be used in solving geopolitical problems
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