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


ДЕМИФОЛОГИЗАЦИЯ

Heroic myths and demythologization of historical memory

Introduction. An attempt is made to examine the role of classical heroic and modern myths in the development and preservation of historical memory as one of the traditional aspects of social and individual consciousness. Myths, participating in the formation of the identity of a person, comprehending the past and present of his people, personified in images, in the process of historical development of society can be transformed, exposed to pseudo-heroization and demythologization. Theoretical analysis.

Myths Inside of a Religious Discourse in Russia: Technology of a Deconstruction

Myths in the religious environment are the effective tool of decentralization of management, and also manipulation with consciousness of frank believers. The religious environment and the developed institute of imperous attitudes suffers from it. Development of information technologies is accompanied by perfection of mythological designs which even more often get into a basis of social programs of religious association and, that the most terrible, «wash away» a basis of the doctrine.