Keywords
globalization
glocalization
multiculturalism
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Abstract
In the article, the author analyzes the phenomenon of religious culture and the related concepts of “religion” and “culture” in their unity and diversity. The purpose of the study is to comprehensively analyze the peculiarities of the interaction between religious beliefs and cultural identity in transnational contexts. The methodology of the study is based on an interdisciplinary analysis of scientific and methodological approaches to religious culture and how it exists in the present-day conditions, a synthesis of the main ideas to develop an appropriate conceptual framework as the basis of the state strategy for the functioning of religion in a multicultural socio-political environment. The modern tendencies of interaction between the universal and the local in the context of the functioning of religion in a multicultural environment are investigated. It is shown that the social activity of the believer is intended to transmit and develop religious experience, thereby ensuring the viability of religious culture, and therefore attention is drawn to tradition as a basic element of religious culture, which has special mechanisms of protection: localization and identification. Clarifying the conditions for preserving the religious identity of a believer in the context of globalization allows the author to identify two main ways of religious identification: protection aimed at isolation from the negative impact of globalization processes, and projectivity, which involves adaptation to new, rapidly changing realities. It is emphasized that an important feature of cultural processes in the globalized world is the mythologization of reality. The author identifies certain ways of interaction between religion and culture, namely: religious acculturation, religious expansion, diffusion, and synthesis of religion and culture. The processes of coexistence of religious culture in the globalized world are analyzed in the light of the conceptual foundations of the theory of glocalization and its forms such as vernacularization, indigenization, nationalization, and transnationalization.
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