فعالیت های آموزشی کلیسای ارتدکس روسیه در فضای فرهنگی معاصر روسیه

The paper provides an analysis of the process of transformation of the educational activities of the Orthodoxy in the circumstances of the development of the transcultural information space in terms of clericalization and secularization (as exemplified by contemporary Russia); comprises a detailed study of the changes in the educational environment, which have taken place due to the increasing activity of the Church in post-Soviet Russia and the support of the Government; and states the correlation between this trend and the processes of the transcultural information environment that has made the religion secularization possible. This paper discusses the main attitudes of the supporters and opponents of secularization and clericalization both in the Russian Federation, and the wider world. In our understanding, there is a tendency towards secularization in the modern cultural and informational environment. It does not necessarily mean that religion is disappearing; we can see now the rise and fall of the clericalization processes which is a specific situation against the aforementioned general tendency. A renewed interest in religion in the Russian Federation today clearly means that the Russian Orthodox Church is penetrating into the sphere of education. The supporters of this process advocate moral and religious improvement of the personality and the maintenance of mental aspects of education. The opponents of comprehensive school clericalization take an ideological approach; they believe that religious education in secular schools violates the constitutional requirement of the ideological pluralism.