HARMONY OF SCIENTIFIC AND RELIGIOUS EDUCATION AS A CONDITION FOR THE SUSTAINABILITY OF MODERN RUSSIAN SOCIETY (HISTORICAL-PHILOSOPHICAL AND GENERAL THEORETICAL ASPECTS)

Author(s): Gusev D.A., Minaychenkova E.I., Pustovoitov Yu.L.

Rubric: Education for sustainable development

DOI: 10.21777/2500-2112-2022-4-72-79

Release: 2022-4 (41)

Pages: 72-79

Keywords: enlightenment, scientism, anti-scientism, theistic religion, Christianity, Orthodoxy, science, scientific enlightenment, religious enlightenment, religious illiteracy, immanent past, transcendent future

Annotation: As a rule, enlightenment means scientific enlightenment. However, it is quite possible to talk about other types of enlightenment, including philosophical and religious enlightenment. After the revolution of 1917–1921 in Russia, the Church was separated from the state, and religious education and education – from the school, education and enlightenment in which began to have a purely scientific character. As a result, over several decades of the existence of the Soviet secularist or secular state and education, a certain skew has formed in the ratio of scientific and religious public education: if in the field of scientific education there is a real acquaintance of a person with the basic scientific concepts, ideas, theories and pictures of the world, then in the field of religious education – instead of acquaintance with real religious ideas – a person is offered, as a rule, caricature interpretations of them. This leads to an unjustified representation of the correlation and interaction of science and religion as hostile and contradictory views on the world and man, which becomes one of the destabilizing factors in the development of modern Russian society. The object of the study is the correlation and interaction of scientific and religious public enlightenment and education. The subject of the study is a distorted view of the antagonism of scientific and religious ideas about the world and man. The purpose of the work is to substantiate the position not only about the absence of this antagonism and the peaceful coexistence of science and religion, but also about their complementarity. The research methods are empirical generalization, deductively and inductively organized conclusions, conclusions by analogy, abstraction, idealization, thought experiment and comparative analysis. The result of the work and one of its conclusions is the position according to which science and religion, by their nature, not only do not oppose each other and can peacefully coexist, but also complement each other, being equally necessary for both man and society; and the balance and harmonization of their relationships may fully be one of the essential factors of sustainable social development. The scope of application of the research results is educational multidimensional interactions in both secondary and higher education.

Bibliography: Gusev D.A., Minaychenkova E.I., Pustovoitov Yu.L. HARMONY OF SCIENTIFIC AND RELIGIOUS EDUCATION AS A CONDITION FOR THE SUSTAINABILITY OF MODERN RUSSIAN SOCIETY (HISTORICAL-PHILOSOPHICAL AND GENERAL THEORETICAL ASPECTS) // Education Resources and Technologies. – 2022. – № 4 (41). – С. 72-79. doi: 10.21777/2500-2112-2022-4-72-79