THE FIELDWORKS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES OF THE INSTITUTE FOR ETHNOLOGICAL STUDIES OF THE UFA FEDERAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
This article briefly examines the history of field research by the Department of Religious Studies of the Institute of Ethnological Research of the Ufa Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The Department of Religious Studies has conducted and is currently successfully implementing studies of various aspects of the functioning of Muslim, Orthodox, Protestant and Catholic religious organizations located both in the Republic of Bashkortostan and in the South, Middle and Polar Urals and Western Siberia; ethno-demographic, doctrinal and ideological characteristics of believers are being studied. New empirical and theoretical propositions based on the results of the original field research of the department employees are introduced into the scientific circulation; new scientific problems are revealed, new methods of collection, processing and analysis of empirical materials are being developed. The Department of Religious Studies has achieved fruitful cooperation with the largest religious organizations of both the Republic of Bashkortostan and the Russian Federation.