Izvestiya of Saratov University.
ISSN 1819-7671 (Print)
ISSN 2542-1948 (Online)


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Religious beliefs as a form of social knowledge in a post-secular society: Eclecticization of traditions

Introduction. The society of the 21st century is high-tech and digital, where people’s thoughts are polar and pluralistic. In such conditions, religion, although it has undergone secularization, remains the most important form of worldview. This article analyzes the methodological problems of eclecticization of religious traditions and adaptation of religious beliefs in a post-secular society. Theoretical analysis. Three main problems have been identified. First, the obscurity of religious beliefs as a form of social knowledge.

Risks of religious socialization in a post-secular society

The article presents the search for effective steps to minimize interfaith tension. The authors reveal the essence of traditional introduction to religion in the modern information environment. Digital technologies, on the one hand, expand the horizons of the possible, but on the other hand, the personality breaks away from natural communication, and as a result, the internal system of spiritual landmarks is disturbed.

Modernizing education in the post-secular world

Introduciton. This article examines the main directions of modernization of the institution of education in a post-secular society; socio-philosophical analysis of the transformations of modern education is carried out at various levels of its institutionalization: educational and methodological, organizational and managerial, communicative, value-semantic, etc. Theoretical analysis.

Recent theories of secularization and perspectives of secular-religious dialogue

Introduction. The article examines the current philosophical debates about the relationship between secular and religious worldviews. The article outlines recent forms of postsecularization as the continued existence of religious communities in a continually secularizing environment, identifying its main dimensions: the deinstitutionalization of the religious lifestyle, the individualization of faith, and the development of new social forms in the religious fi eld. Theoretical analysis.