Ekaterina Elbakian, a leading specialist in religious studies, answers to the questions about theology and its prospects as an academic discipline in institutes of higher education in Russia. In particular, one can find discussion of the questions concerning the subject of theology, relations between theology and the study of religion, the dogmatic limits of free theological investigation, and confessionalism in academic life. In general, Prof. Elbakian is quite skeptical about the presence of theology in secular universities, and she has doubts about the scientific status of the discipline that places God at its very center.