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RELIGIOUS STUDIES</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>География религии как раздел религиоведения: к постановке проблемы</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>Geography of Religion as a Section of Religious Studies: to the Problem Statement</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6117-4205</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Бойцова</surname><given-names>О. Ю.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Boytsova</surname><given-names>O. Yu.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>Ольга Юрьевна Бойцова — доктор политических наук, профессор, заведующий кафедрой философии религии и религиоведения</p><p>119991, Ленинские горы, МГУ, учебно-научный корпус «Шуваловский» (Россия).</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Olga Yu. Boytsova — Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Philosophy of Religion and Religious Studies</p><p>Leninskie Gory, Moscow, Teaching and Scientific Building “Shuvalovsky”, 119991</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">boytsova.oy@philos.msu.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0009-0005-5099-5143</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Яблоков</surname><given-names>И. Н.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Yablokov</surname><given-names>I. N.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>Игорь Николаевич Яблоков — доктор философских наук, профессор, профессор кафедры философии религии и религиоведения</p><p>119991, Ленинские горы, МГУ, учебно-научный корпус «Шуваловский»</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Igor N. Yablokov — Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, Professor at the Department of Philosophy of Religion and Religious Studies</p><p>Leninskie Gory, Moscow, Teaching and Scientific Building “Shuvalovsky”, 119991</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">i020561@ya.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff-1"><aff xml:lang="ru"><institution>Московский государственный университет имени М.В. Ломоносова</institution><country>Россия</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en"><institution>Lomonosov Moscow State University</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2025</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>25</day><month>06</month><year>2025</year></pub-date><volume>9</volume><issue>2</issue><fpage>51</fpage><lpage>63</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Бойцова О.Ю., Яблоков И.Н., 2025</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2025</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Бойцова О.Ю., Яблоков И.Н.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Boytsova O.Y., Yablokov I.N.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://concept.mgimo.ru/jour/article/view/1001">https://concept.mgimo.ru/jour/article/view/1001</self-uri><abstract><p>Актуальность обращения к осмыслению географии религии как раздела религиоведения обусловлена ростом популярности этой дисциплины в современном научном пространстве, с одной стороны, и её недостаточной концептуализацией, с другой. Высокий интерес к географии религии со стороны научного сообщества вызван её нацеленностью на осмысление теоретических и практических проблем, связанных с пространственными характеристиками религиозной жизни. В наши дни исследование территориальных аспектов сосуществования различных религиозных традиций приобретает особую злободневность в силу сочетания глобализационных тенденций со стремлением к сохранению аутентичной идентичности. Исторически проблемное поле и научный аппарат географии религии формировался с опорой на теоретические наработки и методологический инструментарий философии и различных научных дисциплин, что поддерживает терминологическую и методологическую полифонию в рамках этой дисциплины и препятствует её концептуализации. Цель представленной работы состоит в выявлении возможных оснований для отнесения географии религии к числу разделов религиоведения. Для достижения указанной цели были решены следующие задачи: выявлены истоки формирования географии религии; проанализирован подход к становлению географии религии с позиций географической науки; показано влияние философии религии на методологические основания географии религии; определены основные векторы взаимосвязи географии религии и религиоведения. Исследование ограничено европейской традицией изучения связи религии и географии. Его материалами послужили тексты классиков философской мысли, а также работы отечественных и зарубежных учёных, посвященных осмыслению географии религии как научной дисциплины. Для реконструкции позиции мыслителей по затронутым проблемам, выявления их зависимости от интеллектуального контекста и сравнения были использованы такие методы, как историко-философский анализ текста, дискурсивный анализ и компаративный анализ. Результатом исследования стало обоснование вывода о возможности и целесообразности отнесения географии религии к числу отраслей религиоведения. Такое позиционирование географии религии не противоречит современному пониманию проблемного поля и задач данной дисциплины, как они сформулированы в рамках географической науки, и в то же время позволяет выявить перспективные исследовательские стратегии во взаимодействии с различными религиоведческими дисциплинами: философией религии, историей религии, антропологией религии, социологией религии и психологией религии.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The relevance of addressing the understanding of the geography of religion as a section of religious studies is on the one hand due to the growing popularity of this discipline in the modern scientific space,  and on the other its insufficient conceptualisation. The high interest in the geography of religion on the part of the scientific community is caused by its focus on the comprehension of theoretical and practical problems related to the spatial characteristics of religious life. Nowadays, the study of territorial aspects of the coexistence of different religious traditions acquires a special urgency due to the combination of globalisation trends and the desire to preserve authentic identity. Historically, the problem field and scientific apparatus of the geography of religion has been formed with reliance on theoretical developments and methodological tools of philosophy and various scientific disciplines, which supports terminological and methodological polyphony within this discipline and hinders its conceptualisation. The aim of this work is to identify possible grounds for attributing the geography of religion to the sections of religious studies. To achieve this goal the following tasks were solved: the origins of the formation of geography of religion were revealed; the approach to the formation of geography of religion from the perspective of geographical science was analysed; the influence of philosophy of religion on the methodological foundations of geography of religion was shown; the main vectors of interrelation between geography of religion and religious studies were determined. The research is limited to the European tradition of studying the relationship between religion and geography. The study is based on the texts of the classics of philosophical thought, as well as the works of Russian and foreign scholars devoted to the comprehension of the geography of religion as a scientific discipline. To reconstruct the thinkers' position on the issues raised, to identify their dependence on the intellectual context and to compare them, such methods as historical and philosophical analysis of the text, discourse analysis and comparative analysis were used. The result of the study was the substantiation of the conclusion about the possibility and expediency of attributing the geography of religion to the branches of religious studies. Such positioning of geography of religion does not contradict the modern understanding of the problem field and tasks of this discipline as they are formulated within the framework of geographical science, and at the same time allows us to identify promising research strategies in interaction with various religious studies disciplines such as: philosophy of religion, history of religion, anthropology of religion, sociology of religion and psychology of religion.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>концептуализация научной дисциплины</kwd><kwd>география религии</kwd><kwd>религиоведение</kwd><kwd>философия религии</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>conceptualisation of scientific discipline</kwd><kwd>geography of religion</kwd><kwd>religious studies</kwd><kwd>philosophy of religion</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Балабейкина О. 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