New paper authored by Professor Dimitri Spivak, UNESCO Chair in Comparative Studies of Spiritual Traditions, their Specific Cultures and Interreligious Dialogue and co-authored by Professor Guylchokhra Seyidova and Dr Alina Venkova

The paper presents results of a mass psychological survey of intrinsic religiosity of Shiite Muslims in Russia, conducted by experts of UNESCO Chair on Comparative Studies of Spiritual Traditions, their Specific
Cultures and Interreligious Dialogue, based at the D. S. Likhachev Russian Scientific Research Institute of Cultural and Natural Heritage.

100 members of the local religious community of Shiite Muslims, aged and
young, female and male, were interviewed, basing on the facilities of the historical Juma Mosque at the City of Derbent, in the south of the Republic of Daghestan.

Please click here to access a full copy of the article.