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1. Religion as a form of social consciousness

Religion (from Latin religio - piety, piety, shrine, object of worship) is a worldview and attitude, as well as appropriate behavior and specific actions, which are based on the belief in the existence of one or more gods and the supernatural world.

Religion, from the point of view of philosophy, belongs to the categories of the spiritual culture of mankind. This is a form of social consciousness, that is, a reflection of the world in the consciousness of mankind. Religion is the common spring of the deepest and most vital meanings of social consciousness. If language is a universal shell of social consciousness, then religion, more precisely, the mythological and religious consciousness of mankind, is a common source of the deepest and most vital meanings of social consciousness. The entire content of human culture developed from the mythological-religious consciousness, gradually acquiring semiotically different forms of social consciousness.

The most significant features in the content of religion can be characterized in terms of semiotics. The term "semiotics" is used in two main meanings:

1) sign system;

2) the science of signs and sign systems, including both communication systems in the animal world and a variety of natural and artificial semiotics used in human society.

Semiotics makes it possible to see in religion a method of communication, i.e., a communicative system that has its own content and its own capabilities to transmit, communicate this content. The semiotic approach to the phenomenon of religion is increasingly recognized not only in the historical explanations of individual rituals, verbal formulas or images, but in the very theory of religion. Thus, the American sociologist Robert Bella defines religion as a special communication system - "a symbolic model that forms human experience - both cognitive and emotional" in solving the most important problems of being.

Religion is the subject of a special science - religious studies. Religious studies is the science that deals with the study of religions.

In religious studies, two main sections can be distinguished - theoretical and historical.

Theoretical religious studies include philosophical, sociological and psychological problems of the study of religion. It reveals in religion the general, essential, necessary and rejects the individual, accidental, historically specific.

Historical religion is the history of religion. The history of religion studies the history of the emergence and evolution of individual religions in all the diversity of their features, in their chronological sequence.

Author: Pankin S.F.

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