Open AccessIMAGES OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN RUSSIA AS AN EXPLICIT PROJECT
Author(s) -
Е И Аринин,
Elena V. Vorontsova,
Natalya M. Markova
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
religiovedenie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2712-7575
pISSN - 2072-8662
DOI - 10.22250/2072-8662.2018.2.65-78
Subject(s) - confessional , scholasticism , faith , opium , sociology , religious education , law , pedagogy , politics , political science , epistemology , philosophy
The term “religious education” is explicitly presented in 27 texts in Russian (the National Corpus of the Russian language). It enters the Russian literature in the second half of the 19th century, being understood as “the true anchor of salvation in the days of everyday storms and spiritual anxieties” (Ushinsky, 1858). One can speak of a kind of “Ushinsky Project”, presented in three of its articles. This project was presented as a response to three challenges of the era related to the prohibition of teaching philosophy in universities (1850) and overcoming the “scholasticism” of the school “Law of God”, which could not be resolved in the 19th-20th centuries. In the USSR, the term “religious education” implicitly entered the criminal sphere of social existence, marking the criminal “habituation to opium of the people”. Only science and pedagogical practice of the 21st century allowed finding the optimal forms of combining “knowledge of pedagogical experts”, “traditions of peoples” and “faith of confessional experts”...