V nastoyashchee vremya Rossiya aktivno vtyagivaetsya v protsess globalizatsii, usilivaetsya zarubezhnoe proniknovenie, v tom chisle i v dukhovnoy sfere. V dannom kontekste izuchenie istorii evangel"skikh khristian-baptistov v SSSR predstavlyaet osobyy interes, poskol"ku baptizm predstavlyaet soboy vid zapadnogo khristianstva, rasprostranivshegosya v Rossii. V svyazi s dannymi obstoyatel"stvami voznikaet potrebnost" v issledovanii polozheniya v sovetskom i postsovetskom obshchestve ob"edineniy evangel"skikh khristian-baptistov, razlichnykh napravleniy ikh deyatel"nosti, osnovnykh printsipov vzaimootnosheniy mezhdu gosudarstvom i evangel"skimi khristianami-baptistami vo vtoroy polovine 1940 - 2000-kh gg., v tselom, i v otdel"nykh regionakh, v chastnosti, dlya vedeniya perspektivnogo dialoga «vlast" - religiya». V uchebnom posobii rassmatrivaetsya deyatel"nost" religioznykh obshchin evangel"skikh khristian-baptistov (obryadovaya, kadrovaya, finansovaya i t.d.) i razvitie gosudarstvenno-religioznykh otnosheniy v Penzenskoy oblasti v 1945-2000-kh gg.