The study of religion in the educational space of the center of Russia at the turn of the 20 th and 21 st centuries: state policy and experience of the regions
The article presents key provisions of the monograph «State Policy and Regional Practice of the Study of Religion in the Educational Space of the Center of Russia at the Turn of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries» by O.V. Pigoreva, the aureate of the All-Russian competition for the best scientific book in the category «Humanities». It reveals the genesis of knowledge of religion in school education and substantiates the factors that determined the formation of educational courses concerning religious problems in the new educational space, identifies the historical stages of the investigated phenomenon and shows the evolution of state policy in the educational sphere with regard to the organization of religion studies. Illustrative historical examples prove that it was the regional practice, outstripping state policy and scientific research, that developed methodological approaches to the study of religion, defined goal-setting, forms and methods of work.