HISTORY OF RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS OF KUZBASS

Gorbatov Aleksey Vladimirovich, Zelenin Aleksey Anatolyevich, Ovchinnikov Vladislav Alekseevich

The article, based on the systematization of available information and archival sources, first introduced into scientific circulation, reveals patterns and features of the development of religious organizations in Kuzbass in the 17th - early 21st centuries, characterizes the pre-revolutionary, Soviet and post-Soviet stages of the history of religious confessions. It has been proven that the development process and current state of religious organizations in the region, the mechanisms of interaction between state authorities and local self-government with religious organizations, the forms of interfaith and interethnic interaction are determined by the historical experience of state-confessional relations and the traditions of interethnic and interreligious interaction that have developed in the region.

Keywords:religion, church, religious denominations, Kuzbass, Kemerovo region