От религии птиц к Церкви Летающего Макаронного Монстра: религиозная сатира и пародийные религии в истории европейской культуры

Abstract

The paper treats the phenomenon of religious satire and invented parody religions as an important part of Eu-ropean folk and popular culture in various historical epochs, from Antiquity to the XXI century. Using the exam-ple of the most famous works, social movements and associations, the author examines the various forms that religious parody took depending on the era, cultural and religious perceptions, and analyzes the role of laugh-ter culture in shaping the image of fictional parody religions. Both common characteristics characteristic of reli-gious satire from Aristophanes to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and distinctive features that dif-ferentiate modern parodic tendencies in this sphere from the satire of the past are highlighted. Particular atten-tion is paid to terminological difficulties arising in the study of fictional religiosity, primarily related to the very notion of “parody religion”.