The article substantiates the necessity of interaction among social institutions and formal organizations of traditional religions in terms of secular processes in the Russian society. The idea of rationalization of relations of religious institutions with educational institutions is underway. The author shows the contradictory tendencies of a post-secular society, as it is accompanied by the actualization of religious consciousness, increasing attention to different religions and desire for religious self-identification along with the ethnic, civil and cultural ones. The article focuses on the need for the inclusion of philosophical and religious subjects in the education process of the Russian higher education for an in-depth study of religious processes and religious institutions.