CIA • 1988

'THE TIME IS FAVORABLE...' A CONVERSATION WITH A PRIEST OF THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH

000175647 Concatenated JPRS Reports, 1989 Document 2 of 3 Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Status: Document Date: 08 Jul 88 Category: Report Type: JPRS Report Report Date: Report Number: JPR5-USS-89-004 UDC Number: Page: 22 of 53 [STAY] [CAT] Page 1 Author(s): SOTSIOLOGICHESKIYE ISSLEDOVANIYA deputy chief editor Gennadiy Batygin; time and place not specif?ed] Headline: `The Time Is Favorable...' A Conversation with a Priest of the Russian Orthodox Church Source Line: 18060002 Moscow SOTSIOLOGICHESKIYEISSLEDOVANIYA in Russian No 4, Jul-Aug 88 (signed to press 8 Jul 88) pp 38-49 Subslug: [Interview with Innokentiy, candidate of theology, teacher at the Leningrad Seminary for Monastic Priests, by SOTSIOLOGICHESKIYE IS5LEDOVANIYA deputy chief editor Gennadiy Batygin; time and place not specified] FULL TEST OF ARTICLE: 1. [Text] In 1988 at the initiative of UNESCO, not only Christians but also people of various religious and political convictions mark the millennium of the Christianization of Russia (988-1988). This date is is propitious occasion for thinking--read-s~t-n.-~y-abou~~he- - problems of religious life in the...