Религиозная идентичность в парадигме современной культуры

Abstract

The article analyzes the nature and essence of religious identity in modern culture. Since modern culture tends more and more towards individualization and the development of personal lifestyle options, the format of the social existence of religious ideas is also changing. The authors define the specificity of religious identity in the paradigm of modern culture through the transition from the ways of defining the subjects of social relations in traditional society to modern. It is demonstrated that in traditional societies the method of external prescription of static roles that set the limits of the freedoms and opportunities of the individual prevailed, while in modern societies the form of self-determination dominates, when the individual independently and arbitrarily builds his identity from the resources provided to him by culture. Thus, thanks to the philosophical analysis of sociological data, the substantive interpretation of religious identity within the framework of traditional culture and its constructivist (narrative) rethinking within the framework of modern culture are substantiated. In modern society, religion becomes a matter of personal choice, along with the choice of clothing style, cultural activities, reading circle, music playlist, etc. Ultimately, there is an inversion of cause and effect. In a traditional society, the religious worldview was the center of the subject's identity and largely determined its values and characteristics; in modern society, religious identity is shifting to the periphery of the field of free autonomous action of the subject, driven by the mechanisms of intrinsic value and selfjustification of the European humanism of the New Time.