The choice of Orthodoxy in conditions of pluralism (Perm' region)

Abstract

The religious choice as part of the process of conversion constitutes the border beyond which the change of individual worldview takes place. In the social perspective, the conversion leads to the change of religious identity and an affi liation to a certain religious institution. Proselytising activity and personal factors can act as incentives of conversion. The appeal to religion as part of the process of self-design of the individual is one of the steps that determine one’s own religiousness. This act can be prolonged in time and can be made under the infl uence of a number of internal and external factors. At the same time, the fact of implementation of the religious choice acts as a point which allows one to record the change in one’s worldview. In conditions of pluralism of beliefs in the former Soviet Union, the choice of religion implanted in tradition is caused by a set of objective and subjective factors. In order to achieve the goal of the research, methods of the qualitative sociology including the explanation of motives of actions and intentions through communicative interaction with the subject have been used. The analysis of a series of interviews became the basis for the determination of hierarchy of motives and incentives for making the religious choice possible. For Orthodoxy, these are the established way of life, existence of family traditions, fashion trends, stereotypes of everyday consciousness referring to traditional character of religious consciousness.

Keywords

• религия
• православие
• современная религиозность
• индивидуализм
• конверсия
• религиозный выбор
• верующие
• Пермский край