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Abstract
Research on the dynamics of Russians’ religiosity shows that there has been a relatively stable or slightly increasing level of participation in religious activities, but also that identifying oneself as Christian Orthodox is more a cultural than a religious phenomenon.
Notes
1. A total of 1,600 respondents in thirty-three population centers of the Russian Federation were surveyed in the course of the study, in a representative sample broken down by gender, age, and type of population center. The study was carried out with the support of the Russian Foundation for the Humanities, Grant no. 10-03-00185a.
2. See http://wciom.ru/fileadmin/nayka/sovet/fedorov.pdf (accessed February 1, 2013).
3. See http://fom.ru/obshchestvo/10434. (accessed February 1, 2013).
4. Because in the future we plan to analyze the religious consciousness and behavior of the group of Orthodox Christians that consists only of believers, we view the rest of the Orthodox Christians as a group characterized by a sense of cultural identity.
5. An analogous situation occurred in surveys of religiosity in which the undecided were positioned mostly among the believers instead of the nonbelievers where there was no choice offered.