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Abstract

The article presents the results of a monitoring-based sociological research conducted in 2003-2019, aimed at studying ethnic and religious relations in a number of regions of Russia. The author presents methodological approaches to the analysis of confessional and religious self-identification of the respondents, revealing the characteristics of confessional identity as a complex, multidimensional type of social identity, which includes at least four markers: religious, historical, cultural and ethnic.  Research results prove that not every respondent who considers him/ herself Orthodox or Muslim defines him/herself as a religious person. In this respect, a clear discrepancy between the individuals’ worldview positions in relation to religion as an ideology and religion as a cultural and historical religious community, has been recorded.  Religious and confessional identifications do not always coincide and the substitution of religious identity for confessional in sociological surveys leads not only to an overestimation of the level of religiosity of the population, but also to an incorrect interpretation of the orientation and nature of the entire secularization process in the region.