Arkticheskij region vo vtoroj polovine XX — nachale XXI v.: poiski svetskoj sakral'nosti

Abstract

The article attempts to analyze the main directions of the formation of ideas about the Arctic region as a source of new secular sacredness. Sacredness in this work is understood primarily as a super-significant phenomenon, the interaction with which allows you to form new meanings and values. The transition of humanity from the stage of globalization to the stage of post globalization actualizes a number of issues. The formation of a” new secular sacredness “ allows us to solve many of these issues. Such issues include the problem of the formation of new spaces of “networks and flows”. These new spaces differ from the “old type” spaces in their mobility, fluidity, and lack of an implicitly organizational beginning. New spaces of “networks and flows” require an “external” source of formation. Sacredness, for a number of reasons described in this work, can be understood not only as a part of religious consciousness, but also as a part of secular culture. This article shows that the main function of the sacred is to encourage a person to overcome the “present state”, to overcome himself and the conditions of his existence. The interaction of man with nature and the corresponding social environment in the conditions of the Arctic region itself gives grounds for such «overcoming”. At the same time, it is important that the study of the Arctic is a process that directly forms the perception of the world as a space of “peaceful struggle”, allowing us to implement the archaic foundations of human culture (and the desire for socialization is one of the oldest foundations of human culture) in socially acceptable and maximally peaceful ways.