ABOUT RELIGIOUS SITUATION IN CENTRAL ASIA

Abstract

This article describes a number of religious objects in Central Asia in Post-Soviet period of democratic reformations. Also the amount of religious objects in Kyrgyzstan in the ratio with growth of the population is considered. Information on religious institutions is taken from materials of the state organizations (statistical data on the population, development of religious institutions), in article also references are used. Also it is analyzed the data of number of religious institutions given about a ratio with the republics of Central Asia, with population. The saturation and a variety of confessional space some countries of Central Asia testifies to high degree of the religious freedom reached for years of democratic transformations. At the same time, prerequisites for emergence and an aggravation of interfaith contradictions and the conflicts, generally because of competitive fight for influence in society are created. The religious variety was created for the account: firstly an exit from an underground or the renewal of activity of a number of the religious directions which have earlier not gained official recognition and pursued by the state; secondly disintegration processes and split in traditional religion in region; in the third, vigorous missionary activity of foreign religious organizations, generally Protestant and pseudo-Protestant orientation, penetration into the country of the so-called new religious movements (NRM) of the western and east origin, and also wider circulation of earlier traditional religions in Central Asia. As a result the confessional pluralism became an important distinctive feature of a modern religious situation in the Kyrgyz Republic and in the countries of Central Asia.
In general when carrying out religious policy in the region it is necessary to adhere to the international standards and standards the restrictive provisions entered in some republics haven't affected the rights of believers.