Methodological and methodical analysis of the correlation of religious and confessional self-identification
(on the example of the studied subjects of the Russian Federation)
The article is devoted to the urgent problem of studying religious and confessional self-identification of the population in the post-Soviet space. Using the results of mass sociological surveys among the population of the regions of the Russian Federation conducted in the period from 2008 to 2021 in the ISPI FNISTC RAS and IDI FNISTC RAS, while relying on the latest research results of three regions of the Russian Federation (Moscow, the Republic of Mordovia, Belgorod region), the author sets out methodological and methodological provisions that should be taken into account when studying the religiosity of the population, the entire secularization process in the conditions of transformation of socio-political, ethno-confessional, cultural spheres in the Russian society. The materials of sociological monitoring prove that the identification of an individual's religious and confessional commitment do not coincide. Any confessional identity significantly exceeds religious identity, regardless of the regional specifics of the subjects of the Russian Federation. The sociological search revealed that the confessional identification of a subject is a complex, multidimensional type of social identity, since it necessarily includes at least five markers: religious, ethnic, historical, cultural, territorial. Depending on regional characteristics, ethnicity, political orientation, etc., any of these components may come to the fore in confessional self-identification. The author proves that the substitution of the ideological side of religious identity for the confessional one leads, undoubtedly, not only to an overestimation of the number of religious population, but also to a possibly incorrect interpretation of the orientation, nature and features of the secularization process, and, to a certain extent, to ethno-confessional tension in the regions of the Russian Federation. Sociological studies of recent years indicate a static or some decrease in the number of religious population in some regions of Russia with an increase in the number of Orthodox. Based on the long-term monitoring of the Russian Federation subjects, it is concluded that Orthodoxy is increasingly acting as a socio-cultural factor of the all-Russian identity.
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Kublitskaya, E. A. (2024), “Methodological and methodical analysis of the correlation of religious and confessional self-identification (on the example of the studied subjects of the Russian Federation)”, Research Result. Sociology and Management, 10 (1), 11-27. DOI: 10.18413/2408-9338-2024-10-1-0-2
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