Teaching Religion in Ulyanovsk's Public Schools

Author(s): Sergei Gogin
Editor(s): Stephen Aris, Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perovic, Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder, Aglaya Snetkov
Series: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Issue: 103
Pages: 2-4
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen; Institute of History, University of Basel
Publication Year: 2011

Russian leaders need a way to bond the various peoples and groups of their country together. To solve this problem, they have turned to the idea of teaching religion and ethics in schools. However, each region and school is implementing this directive in a different way. The question of how best to instill spirituality and morality - thereby unifying the people living in the Russian Federation - is being hotly debated.

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