The conference “Religion and Russian Revolution” was held at the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA) on October 26–28, 2017. The conference included 52 papers by scholars from 11 nations and many Russian cities. The best papers will be published in this journal, in the Russian language, and in an English-language volume by one of the Western publishers. The main idea of the conference was to explore not only the impact of 1917 Revolution upon the religious institutions; not only the intellectual and cultural reactions to Revolution; but also the revolutionary attempts of replacing the old religions with such new patterns of this-worldly, utopian sacrality, which sublimated the new order and legitimized revolutionary violence. The conference site: http://conferences.msses.ru/religion