Digital Field of Communication of Religious Organizations

Abstract

Studies on the interaction of religious organizations and their followers on social networks go back about ten years. Recognition of the crucial role of social networks in the religious life of modern society can be considered a generally accepted position among scholars. However, such interactions on the Russian internet remain poorly understood. The phenomenon of online religion is still not fully open. In modern science, there is a shortage of studies that pay attention to the theoretical and methodological foundations of the classification of religious practices online, taking into account the influence of sociocultural processes occurring in society. The concept of “digital religion” and the attempt to classify it have become the central position of the article. The advantages and the development prospects of the most famous theories of digital religion are demonstrated on basis of their analysis. The article attempts to adapt the concept of the Hjarvard mediatized religion to the Russian model of digital religion.

Foreign students at Russian universities: intercultural interaction as a basis for countering extremism

“…The factors influencing the degree of adaptation of foreign students can be conditionally divided into those occurred in educational activities (objective reasons) and in everyday life in the host country [6]. New forms of learning, assessment and control of knowledge can serve as agents of adaptation, as well as socialization, integration into a new team, knowledge of the legislation of the host country, features of household arrangement, intercultural interaction.…”