Education and Real Religious Life

Abstract

Religious studies at secular schools and universities aim at the disclosure, comprehension of laws, trends, driving forces, main stages of religious history. There is a problem of interaction of secular education and religious sphere of modern culture. Secular education tends to give students scientific image of reality, in particular neutral information about different religions. Many students and their teachers have personal religious beliefs and it’s hard for them to be neutral. The aim of this paper is to investigate the problem and find ways to harmonize this contradiction.

Keywords

• Tolerance,Religiosity,Secular education,Religious life problems,Russian culture

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