Interaction of scientific and religious discourses during perestroika (based on the materials of "Nauka i religiya" (science and religion) journal)

The article centres attention on the interaction of science and religion during perestroika, which formed various discourses - atheistic, religious and scientific. Discourse analysis of the journal «Nauka i religiya» (Science and Religion) for 1985-1991 years helped to understand the features of the transformation of mass consciousness and worldview in combination with models of behaviour in state-confessional relations (scientists, agitators, believers, clergymen). Religious discourse consists of such topics as problems of the image of a believer, types of religiosity, and the role of religion in society. Analyses of the scientific discourse confines attention strictly to the problem of scientific morality, esp. morality of the scientist.