METHODOLOGY OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES IN THE CONTEXT OF NATURAL SCIENCE AND SOCIO-HUMANITARIAN RESEARCH

Abstract

The need to deepen research in the field of religious studies is obvious: religion, despite the fact that it is being displaced from the sphere of public and state life in the modern world, is the most important factor in the stability of society and the realization of geopolitical interests. It is impossible to raise the level of religious studies without developing the methodology of these studies; currently, the level of methodological culture of religious studies is low. But how can the goal of raising the level of methodology of religious studies be realized, what achievements in the field of methodology of science should be guided by, how to turn the problems of religious studies into effective forms of research of this problem itself? Analysis of the formation of scientific methodology, both in the field of natural sciences and in socio-humanitarian knowledge; concretization of the principle of coincidence of the subject and method of research; disclosure of the dialectics of the object and subject of cognition; correlation of the essence of religion with the forms of its manifestation in society and the state; the identification of the main trends in the development of the religious situation in the world are thematic areas, immersion in which can significantly increase the level of methodological culture of religious studies and, as a result, deepen research in the field of religious studies.