RELIGIOUS STUDIES AS PART OF THE HUMANITIES CURRICULUM

Abstract

The article analyzes the scientific justification for the need to teach religion studies as a separate subject in technical universities. Religious studies studies not only legal, but also moral and spiritual, cultural, educational, historical and economic aspects of the phenomenon of religion, the essence of religious beliefs, religious sects and movements, their main, in particular ideological claims. In this sense, religion studies have a wide range of characteristics, and one of the most pressing issues is thegeneralization of the analysis of all aspects of religion, the definition of its social status and the clarification of its youth.