Public opinion on the emergence of new religions in the Republics of the North Caucasus Federal District of the Russian Federation
Religious picture of modern Russia largely represented proavoslavnymi, so today we can talk about the media as an orthodox orientation the main source of information competence of the Russians in religious matters. The consequence of this has been the formation and development of a specialized “orthodox segment in the overall socio-cultural picture of Russian society, is significantly superior in terms of” Muslim “segment”. In this situation, a special interest is the study of the views of representatives of various faiths living in the North Caucasus Federal District with respect to all possible sources of religious information. Article is based on ethno-sociological studies conducted in the summer of 2016 vrespublikah SKFO: North Ossetia-Alania, the Chechen Republic, Karachaevo-Cherkessia, Ingushetia, Dagestan, CBD. Object generation amounted to 1,200 people, including 50 experts (journalists, scientists, government officials, members of political parties, cultural workers). The respondents and experts expressed their opinion on such sources of information about the faith and religious issues, as radio and television, audio CDs, cassettes, MP3 players, video tape, a DVD-drives, printed sources (magazines, books, brochures) text messages to mobile phones, social networks on the Internet, such as Facebook, Twitter et al., other Internet resources (blogs, websites, websites for sharing video0, religious services, or group meetings. also, the respondents evaluated the credibility of information on religious matters received from members family, acquaintances and friends, religious leaders, scientists group / political / community leaders, journalists, leading to the radio or TV, bloggers.