Гуня А.Н. СОЗДАНИЕ ПРАВОСЛАВНОГО АТЛАСА РОССИИ: МЕСТО И РОЛЬ ЭМПИРИЧЕСКИХ СОЦИОЛОГИЧЕСКИХ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЙ

The creation of the Orthodox Atlas of Russia is an important tool for collecting, processing and visualizing interdisciplinary data on social phenomena and processes. The concept of the Orthodox Atlas of Russia is based on a complex of methodological and ideological approaches in the collection, analysis and visualization of empirical data on the history, distribution and present state of Orthodoxy in Russia. At the heart of the creation of the Orthodox Atlas of Russia lies the combination of several blocks: 1) the philosophical and theological rationale for the concept, the object of mapping and its features for the territory of Russia; 2) collection and ordering of spatial information - inventory of historical and cultural processes taking place and occurring in the territory of Russia, their transfer to maps; 3) an analytical unit that includes interpretation, communication with other phenomena and processes.The most important results of the Atlas work will be: inventory of the spiritual and cultural heritage of Russia; reflection of the current state, depth and degree of rootedness of spiritual values, revealing trends and risks; studying the relationship of spiritual and cultural processes (spiritual and cultural space) with processes in the economy, the environment; the development of methods of work on the spiritual and cultural space; the creation of a scientific school for the study of the spiritual and cultural space.