COMPREHENSION OF THE “RELIGIOUS REVOLUTION” OF THE 1960–1980s IN THE WORKS OF ALAN WATTS AND ROBERT BELLAH

Abstract

The purpose of the article is a historical and philosophical analysis of the English-language material devoted to the phenomenon of “religious revolution” in the second half of the 20th century. The relevance is due to the need to fill in the “white spots” (analysis of ideas from the materials not translated into Russian) in the study of the history of foreign religion philosophy of the 20th century, by supplementing the domestic historical and philosophical discourse with the analysis of Alan Watts’ “Beyond Theology”, Robert N. Bellah’s “New Religious Consciousness and the Crisis of Modernity” and works of his colleagues, which are valuable for exploring the philosophical foundations and explaining the causes of the “religious revolution” of the 1960–1980s. This topic can also be of value as a support for clarifying other little-studied fragments in the world historical and philosophical process.