SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF THE IMAGE OF THE MAIN TRADITIONAL CONFESSIONS OF RUSSIA IN THE UNDERSTANDING OF STUDENTS

Abstract

The article describes a study that reveals significant features of the image of traditional confession in Russia – Orthodoxy, Islam and Buddhism among students of Primorsky Krai. The study is characterized by a representative sample and provides an understanding of youth perceptions regarding significant religious denominations. The study has significant novelty, since the use of the projective method of group associative experiment to elucidate attitudes toward religious phenomena has not been done in Russia before. The results obtained indicate that young people in Russia do not receive enough education to form an adequate idea of religious traditions. This impoverishes the formation of a culture of young people, introduces serious distortions in understanding a number of processes in public life, reduces the ability to withstand manipulations in the information space due to a lack of objective data.