Academic Periodical

By using the conception by Robert N. Bellah on religion evolution, the author describes the religious situation in the contemporary Russian society, distinguishes groups of believers with their everyday religious practices and traces the differences in their impact on society. The author also focuses on the terminology problem in contemporary religious studies, namely, on the usage of identical terms for denoting heterogeneous phenomena. In particular, the term “orthodoxy” is, in fact, referred to pagan and monotheistic beliefs.