Аннотации:
This topic is urgent in Tatarstan (RF region) nowadays as young people, including
students, future preschool teachers, actively join religious organizations. This paper
presents facts of young people showing latent national and religious aggression, which
can lead to religious extremism. The purpose of the research is to elicit the specific
nature of religious identity in the context of value system development among female
university students, and future preschool teachers. Methods of the research included
monitoring students' activity in different kinds of academic activity and practical work;
interviewing students; Religions Orientation Scale (Allport G., Ross J.); values scales
(Schwartz). As a result we determined that most students share external religious
attitude. Visiting cults, participation in religious ceremonies which are the means to
prove their belonging to generally accepted mode of life.