Interfaith relations in a multicultural society: problems of regulation[Межконфессиональные Отношения В Условиях Мультикультурного Общества: Проблемы Регулирования]

Just a few decades ago, it was a commonplace that religion is hardly combined with modernity, and that processes of modernization will contribute to further displacement of religion in a purely private sphere. However the situation has changed significantly in recent years. It is no coincident that the concept of secularization was replaced by the theories of desecularization and post-secularism. These were international migrations that became a key factor, forcing students to reconsider the usual place of religion in Western society; as for the post-Soviet space, the main role was played by the collapse of the Soviet atheistic state. The main goal of this paper is to analyze the content of collisions around the problems of secularism, religious rights and freedoms that exist in the public sphere of contemporary societies, as well as to trace the main trends in state regulation of inter-religious relations observed both in Western liberal democracies and in Russia.