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grnjournal.us use religion to spread slanderous fabrications that destabilize the situation, to cause confusion
among the population, and to commit other actions against individuals, society, and the state".[9]
In our country, religion is separated from the state according to the above-mentioned legal
principles. However, the life and activities of the members of the society are mixed with
religious values. It is known from historical experience that religion, in the true sense, has had its
place and status for centuries as a means of inviting humanity to goodness and goodness.
According to E. Ibragimov, Candidate of History Sciences, "Social and political aspects of
freedom of belief and religious tolerance have become important in the relations between the
state and religious organizations. Because religion serves to change the way of life and increase
the country's well-being by applying values such as spiritual training of the country's population
and high morality, self-sacrifice, purity, loyalty to one's nation for the benefit of the Motherland
and the people. He is able to bring out the most valuable and noble qualities and qualities in a
person".[10] In this sense, thousands of religious organizations operating in our country today
are fully responsible for ensuring a mutually tolerant environment. According to E. Ibragimov, at
the same time, in Uzbekistan, there were "Uzbekistan Muslim Office, Karakalpakstan Muslim
Court, higher and secondary special education institutions, Russian Orthodox Church, Diocese of
Tashkent and Central Asia, Orthodox Seminary, Roman Catholic Church, Union of Evangelical
Christian Baptists, Full Bible Christian Center , a Protestant seminary, a Bible society, Jewish
and Bahá'í communities, the Society for Krishna Consciousness, and Buddhist temples are state-
registered".[11] The mutual functioning of these confessions and organizations is seen as the
main source of the environment of tolerance and political stability in our country. The study
guide prepared by the authors I.Khojamurodov and Y.Yakubov contains the following points:
"Political stability is one of the important factors in ensuring the peace and development of
society. After all, any country tries to make wide use of factors that ensure tolerance when
forming and implementing its political system. One of them is religious tolerance. Religion and
its characteristic of tolerance have been one of the main factors in the development of spiritual
and cultural life at all stages of the historical development of mankind. Therefore, religion has
had an impact on ensuring the political stability of all countries and societies, on spiritual,
cultural, and even economic development. [12]
According to U. Kushayev, Doctor of Philosophy, "Tolerance is becoming more and more
important as a social value. The process of globalization and integration is leading to a rapid
increase in the needs and interests of the members of the society, making them diverse and richer
in terms of content. Such a situation requires coordination of the interests of all participants of
social relations, regardless of religion, race, nationality, social origin, which are not always
compatible with each other, because this is one of the important conditions of social stability.
Therefore, it is necessary that the principles of tolerance, such as mutual understanding,
attention, cooperation, constitute the priority characteristics of human morality of modern
society. [13]
Ensuring religious tolerance in our country is closely related to creating equal opportunities for
all religious denominations, as well as building the socio-political and religious consciousness
and worldview of society members on the basis of tolerant relations. At the same time, religious
tolerance can be achieved literally through the efforts of citizens, the state and community
organizations based on the principles of cooperative pluralism.
In our opinion, there are the following main conditions for ensuring religious tolerance: 1)
ensuring that all religious denominations in our country operate equally and uniformly: 2)
guaranteeing the right of citizens to believe in one or another religion or not believe in any
religion; 3) actions aimed at preventing representatives of religious confessions from openly
promoting or forcing people of other religions or citizens who do not have religious beliefs to
believe in their religion; 4) to prohibit by law representatives of religious denominations from
criticizing, promoting a religion other than their own, and converting to their own religion in
exchange for certain incentives and various means; 5) includes tasks such as explaining the