Abstract

SILAEVA, Zoya Vladimirovna. Difficulties in educating the theological expert review in Russia. Conrado [online]. 2020, vol.16, n.77, pp. 81-86.  Epub Dec 02, 2020. ISSN 1990-8644.

The paper is devoted to identifying the complexities concerning the educating theological expert review. The institution for expert review has emerged relatively recently and is often a tool used by different interest groups in battles with each other, for example, with religious rivals or engaged leaders pursuing their own goals. The main attention in the paper focuses on the following problematic points: the lack of a unified comprehension of the nature of theological expert review, and also of a unified methodology for its conduct and typology, the issues of the determinism in the results of the expert opinion due the belonging of a researcher to a certain scientific school. The paper reveals factors that negatively affect the procedure for conducting expert research, and identifies the main prospects for the development of the institution of theological expert review. It states that the peculiarity of the development of theological discourse has a strong influence on the process of the formation of theological expert review in the Russian Federation and is largely the reason for the lack of uniform standardized criteria in relation to the methods and rules for its implementation. The paper is of interest for experts, researchers, teachers, as well as for those interested in the problems of understanding this institution and the prospects for its development, taking into account the existing law enforcement practice in Russia.

Keywords : Theological expert review; neo-institutionalism; freedom of conscience and religion; religion; expert community; new religious movements; law enforcement practice.

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