Religious orientations of student's youth of provincial capital (the city of Barnaul as an example): from theory to practice

Abstract

The religious situation of modern Russia, as researchers show, is characterized by two trends. On the one hand, in comparison with the end of the 20th century, one may observe the numerical growth of the population referring itself to any religious tradition. On the other hand, researchers have noted sharp opposition of religious consciousness and cult behavior among the believing population. As a result of this dissonance one can observe the fact, that from 75% of the respondents identifying themselves as Orthodox, only 8-9% subordinate the way of life to requirements of religious dogma. In practice, not only scientific researches, but also remarks of representatives of church, say that the core membership of permanent members of church is the share of women. Mostly middle-aged and elderly. The objective of this research is the studying of the relation to religion of the student's youth of the city of Barnaul. The present research is based on materials of a prospecting sociological research. The main hypothesis of this research is the provision that the studied group of the studying youth is mostly low religious and a poorly churched persons. The authors analyze the practice of studying the problem of churching in Russian science.