Sociocultural Interaction Of Secular And Relogious Components In Modern Russian Education

The article is devoted to the interaction of secular and religious education as a complex cultural process and the challenges to be regarded. Integration is overcoming differences in philosophical, historical, political and educational areas. From ontological angle secular and religious cultures are oriented at comprehending and reflecting fundamentally different sides of objective reality. Historically the time of USSR contributed to the cultural gap between of religion and secular education, thus, religious education was marginalized. Ideology change of the 1990s toward recognition of religion as an important part of social life followed the world trend towards desecularization marked by sociologists. This shift revived the dominant position of the Orthodox Church, which used to be the state church until 1917, in the inherited culture of the secular state. This led to specific state-church interrelations in Russia, where de jure Russia is viewed as a secular multi-confessional state, but de facto the educational policy is majorly organized according to the model of mono-religious country. To clarify the definition of religious education proves one of the key issues in socio-political discourse while focusing on religious education. Integration process is revealed in the multi-faceted adaptation of relatively independent secular and religious education subsystems in terms of their contribution to the effective functioning of the education system as a whole. The authors present an analysis of the research being conducted today by Russian scholars concerning the topical issues of secular and religious components of education and integration practices.