LTStraipsnyje norima sudaryti prielaidą teoretikams spręsti šiuolaikinės istorinės sąmonės problemas, taip pat suteikti praktikams galimybę kritiškai vertinti naudojamus vadovėlius, nes istorijos vadovėliuose dažnai pasitaiko klaidų. Straipsnyje autorius aptaria vadovėlius. Nustatyta, kad juose gerokai palankiau gvildenami religiniai ir bažnytiniai klausimai, tačiau vis dar būdinga perdėta pasaulietiškumo – religingumo takoskyra. Vis dėl to, aptarti vadovėliai gali padėti susidaryti daugmaž teigiamą ar bent jau neutralų krikščionybės ir Bažnyčios įvaizdį.Reikšminiai žodžiai: Krikščionybė; Bažnyčia; Visuotinės ir Lietuvos istorijos vadovėliai.
ENContemporary tendencies towards confusion of values and globalisation ask for a universal way of treating our past. On the other hand, the crisis of the traditional society which is largely caused by the devaluation of the revealed or eternal values makes it obvious that Christianity as the source of these values, and the Church as their bearer, have to be rehabilitated and brought back into history books and textbooks. It is therefore important to analyse textbooks of history from their point of view on Christianity and the Church, the more so because the topic has not been studied. The contrast between the relevance and the neglect of the problem is very obvious, but it has not yet received any scientific analysis. We are dealing with this problem here on the basis of the newest school textbooks by Lithuanian authors (1998–2003) on integrated universal and Lithuanian history for forms 7–10. The main points of our analysis are as follows: a) the amount of direct attention to Christianity and the Church, b) the phenomena and the features discussed and the way they are shown, c) the main drawbacks of their treatment, d) the relationship of the other historical aspects shown.