V monografii sdelany sleduyushchie vyvody: problema «RPTs - gosudarstvo» v oboznachennykh khronologicheskikh ramkakh zatragivaetsya v znachitel"nom kruge issledovaniy. Odnako teoreticheskie i metodologicheskie podkhody perioda 1985-1990-kh gg. v bol"shinstve svoem ogranichivalis" zhestkimi ramkami marksizma-leninizma. Issledovaniya postsovetskogo vremeni baziruyutsya na novykh metodologicheskikh podkhodakh; v deyatel"nosti RPTs i ee vzaimodeystvii s vlast"yu nashli otrazhenie kharakternye zakonomernosti, prisushchie gosudarstvenno-konfessional"noy praktike vo vtoroy polovine 1980 - 2000-kh gg.; s serediny 1980-kh gg. v SSSR v kontekste «perestroyki» nachinaetsya protsess korennykh izmeneniy v otnosheniyakh mezhdu gosudarstvom i tserkov"yu. Gorbachevu trebovalas" lyubaya podderzhka v provedenii «perestroechnykh» reform, v tom chisle RPTs i veruyushchikh; gosudarstvennaya politika vo vtoroy polovine 1980 - 2000 gg. v religioznoy oblasti otrazila protivorechivost" i nezavershennost" demokraticheskikh reform, provodimykh v strane v dannyy period. V perekhodnyy period 1990-kh gg. gosudarstvenno-konfessional"naya politika v RF razvivalas" ot tsentralizovannoy modeli k bolee slozhnoy forme, chto privodilo k detsentralizatsii v upravlenii religioznoy sferoy.