Ритуальное поведение городского населения Дагестана

Abstract

Introduction. The problem of religiosity and religious behavior is actualized in the scientific space against the background of the increasing role of religion, the desire of spiritual leaders to penetrate practically all social spheres and dominate there, which causes rejection and condemnation in the mass consciousness. Theoretical justification. The growth of the Islamic component in Russia was facilitated by change in the basic foundations of Russian society, sharp transition from the atheistic ideology that prevailed in society to other ideological attitudes. However, there was a powerful platform for such a development of Russian society, because the existing declaration of freedom of conscience could not be implemented in reality. Accordingly, the transformation of Russian society logically expanded the boundaries for the free functioning of religious institutions, provided the population with access to religious knowledge. Methods. The empirical study was conducted in 2020 by the method of random selection. The object of the study is the urban population. The subject of the study is the religious behavior of the urban population of Dagestan. The survey location is cities Derbent, Kaspiysk, Makhachkala, Khasavyurt, Kizlyar. The basis for the inclusion of these cities in the research sample is the territorial parameter, which allows to cover equally the northern, plain and southern administrative entities. N = 563. Results and its discussion. The analysis of the results of the author's sociological survey shows that the Islamic revival in Dagestan was accompanied by intensification of the ritual behavior of the population of the republic, however, an in-depth study of the cult behavior of the townspeople shows their characteristic formal religiosity: the existence of an inconsistency between the basic Islamic postulates in religious behavior and the real ritual behavior of the surveyed urban population has been established.