Granì (Nov 2016)
The form and content of the ancestral in the development of religious culture
Abstract
Features of ancestral in the development of religious culture have been studied in the article. The aim of this article is to examine the contents of internal ancestral in the development of religious culture. Religious ancestral shows the dichotomy of stability and variability in religious traditions and principles of renewal. It reveals archaic in new contexts and thus makes the use of dialectical methodology to be a main research tool. Religious culture is a social activity, which is based on a system of historical religious relations, perceptions, knowledge and practices, religious institutions established on their basis, material and spiritual consequences received. These consequences are inherited and developed by natives in accordance with historical conditions. Ancestral is understood as category of cultural development. The viability of religious culture is provided by interrelationships of its various components. It guarantees the functionality of the broadcast experience transition and mechanisms of its renewal. Ancestral mechanisms of religious culture have been revealed in the dialectical unity of its material and spiritual forms. The components of religious culture are: religious consciousness, religious activities and religious institutions, which are divided into external and internal structure. The external structures, which represent religion in the world of social phenomena, consist of a religious doctrine that defines relations of followers with higher world. The internal structure of religious culture includes such elements, which provide the variability within the confessional content depending on social conditions. Social activities of religious subjects in the process of hereditary transmission is divided into the reproductive one, which is aimed at obtaining of sustainable results by known tools, and the creative one, which is related with the fulfillment of known purpose by new tools in the new environment. Sacredness belongs to Religious traditions are characterized by sacredness, which implies their “perpetuation” .Religious innovation is stimulated by the complex of cultural and historical reasons and by the inconsistency of organizational principles of the majority of traditional churches to democratic conditions. Religious organizations and institutions, which unite fellow believers, regulate their religious activities. The religious relationships are a projection of human relations towards hypostatization entities in human relations. Heritable religious social relations, in formal way, are cut to the speech ones, which happen through the mediation of cult objects and personalized ones, which are committed between believers and leaders of religious communities, and mediated through idealized forms of deities. The characterizing feature of the religious continuity is its activity being a part of identifying sustainable doctrinal core and means of its interpretation in the new environment; idealization of the past, new things in religious culture are seen as turned old, and this creates the illusion of “timeless” changes.
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