Gusaeva, K.G. Ethnical and religious factors as framework elements of development of traditional societies.

Abstract: As the author of this article points out, when one analyses ethnical problems, religions have to be taken into account. In many states of this world religion plays a bigger part in people’s life than their ethnic affiliation. Even in some developed European states, there are serious social conflicts based upon religion. For example, in the Northern Ireland, there’s an ongoing conflict between the Catholic Irish and the Protestant Ulster people (descendants of English and Scottish settlers). In many Asian and African states, especially, the Islam states, religious factors are more socially important than ethnical factors…