DOI: 10.7256/2409-868X.2015.1.13959

Abstract: The purpose of the present article is to define the place of protection of state religion in the domestic policy of different countries since ancient times till the early middle ages, in particular, in the Roman Empire, Ancient Judea and early medieval kingdoms: Frankish Kingship, Ostrogothic Kingdom, Kingdom of Burgundy, Kingdom of the Lombards, etc. The subject of the research is the religious crimes (violation of sacred places, violation of sacred times, idolatry, blasphemy, bewitchery, perjury, defiling of graves and dead bodies, heresy) and their dependence on and relation to different factors of social and political life of those times. In their research the authors have applied the following methods: dialectical method as a general philosophical method, general scientific methods such as systems analysis, synthesis, deduction and induction and particular legal methods such as methods of comparative law, historical law, legalistic method and others. The main conclusion of the research is that protection of state religion was an important function of government both in the early middle ages and ancient times. That policy allowed to ensure the domestic security and keep the ideological integration of the society. 

DOI: 10.7256/2306-420X.2014.6.13702

Abstract: It goes without doubts that fact that the legal community always actively influenced development of the state and statehood in Russia therefore problems of quality, systemacities, an ideological orientation of legal education and a level of development of jurisprudence have not only theoretical, but also especially practical value. In this regard the author addresses to sources of the Russian law – by the period of the "Russian" Education when traditions of domestic legal science arose, the western legal ideas were exposed to reconsideration, the foundation of the Russian legal education was laid. On the basis of application dialectic, logical, system, historical and other methods of scientific knowledge, the author comes to a conclusion about need of promoting of legal knowledge and achievements of jurisprudence, and also to increase of the importance of the general legal disciplines (legal philosophy, political and legal doctrines, the theory of the state and the right, etc.) in the course of training of law students.