Formation of a Postsecular Society in Russia
Research Article
How to Cite
Matetskaya A.V. Formation of a Postsecular Society in Russia. Humanities of the South of Russia. 2020. Vol. 9. No. 5. P. 93-107. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18522/2227-8656.2020.5.7 (in Russ.).
Abstract
The purpose of the article is to analyze the prerequisites for the formation of a postsecular society in Russia and to identify its characteristics in comparison with the Western model of postsecularity. Theoretical and methodological bases of the research are the concepts of secularization, desecularization and postsecular society, as well as the concept of political religion. The article shows that the prerequisites for transition to a postsecular society in Russia differ from the prerequisites for the formation of a Western postsecular society identified by Y. Habermas. Characteristics of Russian postsecular society also differ from the Western model. In particular, Russian society is characterized by the convergence of state and religion, which is not the case in Western societies. The peculiarities of Russian postsecular society are determined by the peculiarities of its formation and the Soviet secularization that preceded it, which the author considers with the help of the concept of political religion. The results of this research can be used for further studies of Russian postsecular society.
Keywords:
secularization, modernization, political religion, postsecular society, desecularization
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Gafiatulina, N.Kh., Samygin, S.I. (2019). Religious attitudes as an element of managing the value orientations of modern youth. Ekonomicheskiye problemy Rossii i regiona. Uchenyye zapiski. Rostovskiy gosudarstvennyy ekonomicheskiy universitet (RINH). Rostov-on-Don, 217-224. (in Russian).
Gellner, E. (1995). Conditions of Freedom. Moscow: Ad Marginem. (in Russian).
Gentile, E. (2013). Fascism, Totalitarianism and Political Religion: Definitions and Critical Reflections. Gefter. Available at: http:// gefter.ru/archive/ 10519. (in Russian).
Knorre, B. (2014). Russian Orthodoxy. Post-secular institutionalization in the space of power, politics and law. Montazh i demontazh sekulyarnogo mira. A. Malashenko, S. Filatov. (Eds.). M.: ROSSPEN, 42-102. (in Russian).
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Lebedev, S. (2015). Orthodox Consensus in Russia of the beginning of the XXI century as a phenomenon of religious situation. Nauchnyj rezul'tat. Sociologiya i upravlenie, 1, 14-21. (in Russian).
The Orthodox Church under the new patriarch. (2011). S. Filatov, A. Malashenko (Eds.). M.: Moskovskiy Tsentr Karnegi. (in Russian).
Rokucci, A. (2012). Reflections on the postsecular society and secularization in the history of Russia in New and Newest times. Chelovek.Ru, 8, 94-99. (in Russian).
Rutkevich, E. (2012). New paradigm in sociology of religion: Pro and Contra. Vestnik Instituta sociologii, 6, 208-231. (in Russian).
Uzlaner, A. (2011). Introduction to postsecular philosophy. Logos, 3 (82), 3-32. (in Russian).
Uzlaner, D. (2020). End of “pro-Orthodox consensus”: religion as a new division of Russian society. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 3. Available at: https:// www.nlobooks.ru/magazines/ novoe_literaturnoe_obozrenie/163_nlo_3_2020/article/22227/. (in Russian).
Furman, D., Kaariainen, K. (2007). Religion in Russia at the turn of XX − XXI centuries. Obshchestvennye nauki i sovremennost', 2, 78-95. (in Russian).
Habermas, Y. (2008). Post secular society − what is it? Rossijskaya filosofskaya gazeta, 5 (19), 1-2. (in Russian).
Steckl, K. (2012). To the definition of “postsecular”. Chelovek.Ru, 8, 51-67. (in Russian).
A postsecular world society?: An interview with Jürgen Habermas (2010). Available at: https://tif.ssrc.org/2010/02/03/a-postsecular-world-society/.
Berger, P. (1999). The Desecularization of the World: A Global Overview. The Desecularization of the World: Resurgent Religion and World Politics. P. Berger (Ed.). Ethics and Public Policy Center. Washington, 1-18.
Eisenstadt, Sh. (2010). The New Religious Constellations in the Frameworks of Contemporary Globalization and Civilizational Transformation. World Religions and Multiculturalism. Ben-Rafael & Sternberg (Eds.). Leiden, Boston: Brill.
Gentile, Е. (2006). Politics as Religion. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
Ghodsee, K. (2009). Symphonic Secularism: Eastern Orthodoxy, Ethnic Identity and Religious Freedoms in Contemporary Bulgaria. Anthropology of East Europe Review, 27 (2), 227-252.
Kyrlezhev, A., Shishkov, A. (2011). Postsecularism in Post-Atheist Russia. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/5812716/Postsecularism_in_post_Atheist_Russia.
Shakhbanova, M.M., Gafiatulina, N.Kh., Samygin, S.I., Chapurko, T.M., Levaya, N.A., Bineeva, N.K. (2018). Youth of the South of Russia: Specifics of Manifestation of Ethnic Identity (On the Example of the Dagestan Republic). Purshartha, 10, 2, 111-119.
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Received: 01.09.2020
Accepted: 08.12.2020
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Matetskaya, A. V. (2020). Formation of a Postsecular Society in Russia. Humanities of the South of Russia, 9(5), 93-107. https://doi.org/10.18522/2227-8656.2020.5.7
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