METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO THE STUDYING RELIGIOUS POLICY IN THE MIDDLE VOLGA REGION IN XVIII - EARLY XX CENTURIES: CONCEPTION OF CONFESSIONALIZATION
In the article have been analyzed a conception of confessionalization and its possibilities for the studying religious policy of imperial authorities in the Middle Volga region in XVIII - early XX centuries. Above all, in the article described the main historical works in which methodological approaches are applied. The methodology allows explaining a difficulty in relationships Russian authorities with polyconfessional inhabitants of empire.