About the Summit

The Summit will discuss topical issues:

-Interaction of world religions: horizons and prospects of cooperation;

-Traditional spiritual and moral values as a basis for interreligious cooperation and universal solidarity;

-Traditional family values in the context of world religions;

-Resource base of “religious diplomacy”, “religious diplomacy” as instrument of rapprochement of peoples;

-Religious factor in foreign policy activities of states;

-Integrating and disintegrating functions of religion in a multipolar world;

-Multiculturalism in modern society;

-The role of world religions in ensuring global security and combating the challenges of modernity;

-Typology of state-confessional relations;

-Traditional values and problems of the state cultural policy.

-Prevention of Christianophobia and Islamophobia in the modern world;

-Crisis of religion in the modern world;

-Problems of politicization of religion;

-East-West: prospects for overcoming confrontational dynamics;

-Religious associations in secular society;

-Geopolitical factor in the confessional evolution of conflictogenic communities;

-Terrorism, extremism, neo-Nazism, separatism and xenophobia as challenges to dialog;

-Russia is another Europe;

-The role of world religions in the unity of peoples;

-Religion, education and upbringing of modern man;

-The demand for theology as a scientific and educational direction in the development of society;

-Religious education: exchange of experience and ways of cooperation;

-The contribution of world religions to the development of social harmony in the world and in the multinational and multi-confessional Russian Federation;

-The role of joint efforts of statesmen, scientists and religious leaders in the development of interfaith dialog and cooperation.