On September 10-11, 2021, the 6th International scientific conference “Religions, Identities, Policies (Points of Convergence and Divergence)” took place at Srebrno Jezero, Serbia. It was organized by the Forum for Religious Issues and the Center for Sociological and Anthropological Research of the Institute of Social Sciences from Belgrade, the Yugoslav Association for Scientific Research of Religion from Nis, and the Board for Education and Culture of the Diocese of Branicevo from Pozarevac. On September, 11 Elena Prutskova presented a paper “Confessional identity, religiosity and attitude towards Church social work in Russia” prepared in the framework of the project “Social work of the Russian Orthodox Church: development factors and the problem of institutionalization” supported by the grant of the President of the Russian Federation No. 20-1-037307.