Izvestiya of Saratov University.
ISSN 1819-7671 (Print)
ISSN 2542-1948 (Online)


религиозный опыт

Risk-Producing Potential of Hyperreligiosity (by the Example of Anton Chekhov’s Story «The Murder»)

To the question of revival of religious faith in contemporary Russia the scientific community pays big attention on finding methodological possibilities of protection against all kinds of destructive cults and sects. However, little attention is paid to the development of a healthy religious experience within the traditional religions, particularly Orthodoxy. One of the real problems is hyperreligiosity. The term hyperreligiosity was born in the bosom of psychiatry, as an unofficial diagnosis that doctors put almost every believer that was treated in the clinic.