The formation of religious-national identity as a pedagogical problem.

Abstract

The article represents the results of theoretical analysis dealing with the evolution of views on the concept of religious-national identity, different approaches to the level defining, personal identity statuses and their relations. Modern integration world processes determine cardinal changes in the pedagogical theory and practice, they become one of the determinatives of personality’s national self-identification which provides acquiring of national and common to all mankind values. The problem of the youth’s religious-national identity formation is considered relevant today.

Key words:

identity; nation; ethnicity; spiritual development; religious education; nation-state; political nation.