The Current State of Religious Education in Russia by the Example of Comprehensive Schools and Higher Educational Institutions of Rostov-on-Don

¹ Ryazan State University named for S. Yesenin, department “Philosophy”, 390000 Ryazan, Russian Federation
² Don State Technical University, “Philosophy and World Religions” department, 344000 Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation

^* Corresponding author: osya8923@yandex.ru

Abstract

In the article there is a judgment of the current state of religious education in Russia by the example of comprehensive schools and higher education institutions of Rostov-on-Don. The authors mark a number of problems preventing high-quality improvement of religious education in the Russian Federation and also speak about the achievements in this sphere made lately. In the article the need of improvement of quality of religious education in Russia contacts a huge number of destructive information in the Internet space and its adverse effect on the modern Russian youth and also the substitution of real life by virtual reality and the related with them falling of the intellectual level of development of the young generation which has received the manifestation in ignorance of history and culture of their own country. The authors argue about the changes of the meaning of the category “value” in the modern Russian society. They compare modern understanding of “value” with understanding of “value” of the beginning of the 20th century. A set of traditional cultural values is given in the article, it is necessary to impart these values to the young generation to protect it from the adverse effect of the Internet space and to develop the critical relation to the obtained information.