The DISCOURSE of PUBLIC POLICY IN the making of ORTHODOXY IN TERMS of COLONIZATION of the NORTH CAUCASUS IN XVIII - FIRST HALF XIX centuries
The process of establishing the Orthodoxy in the North Caucasus has been controversial. On the one hand, its population was deeply religious, but the removal from the bodies of the diocesan administration has developed a number of specific religious practices, which the whole subsequent period of history prevented the approval of the official Orthodoxy. The article presents the philosophical analysis of religious positions dominant in colonization of the Cossack class, the analysis of public policy on eradicating them.