Foreigners’ views on Orthodox Christianity
The article is devoted to the study of foreigners' views on Orthodoxy. This subject is not studied in science, but is becoming increasingly important due to the growing role of the Russian Orthodox Church, as well as globalization. As a result of globalization, different cultures are becoming increasingly intertwined and there is a need to protect their culture, and Russian culture is largely based on Orthodoxy. The study is pilot in nature and is based on the method of individual interviewing. In two weeks, 17 questionnaires were received from citizens of 8 countries (England, France, New Zealand, Vietnam, Latvia, USA, Brazil and Ukraine). The article provides complete answers to the question “What do You know about Orthodoxy?” (translated into Russian), as well as selective answers to some other questions. As a result of the study, the author has obtained the initial idea of the vision of Orthodoxy by foreigners, updated the data on the most well-known for foreigners aspects, and tested the methodology for continuing the study. The author has confirmed the hypothesis that at the moment the knowledge of Orthodoxy among foreigners is small, for example, there is an idea that it is common only in the countries of the former USSR, but its geography is much wider. The questionnaire contained a block of questions about Russia, and, according to the results, the respondents, for the most part, expressed a very positive attitude to Russia and the people, but spoke negatively about the political situation, which also confirmed one of the hypotheses of the study. Some of the answers have already been published in 2018 in the Orthodox youth magazine “Hleb zhizni” (Gladkaya, 2018). The analysis of the answers and detailed description of the study are being published for the first time in this article. Further research will be continued.
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