NEW RELIGION FORMATS IN THE MODERN RUSSIAN SOCIETY PUBLIC SPACE
The relevance of the topic is due to active polemic about the place and role of religion in modern Russian society. The purpose of the article is to discover new formats for the presence of religion in public space. The research objectives are: (1) to identify the specifics of religion perception in a secular state and secular society; (2) to reveal the spectrum of ideological, political and social meanings contained in polemic discourses on religion in Russia. The author uses the method of analyzing contexts in which religious institutions and religious practices receive new meanings, and also uses methods of comparison and generalization. Consideration of the topic leads to several main conclusions: (1) modern contexts in which religions exist generate new formats for the public presence of religious traditions and innovations; (2) the demand by believers for fundamental religious doctrines is peripheral; external markers of religious affiliation take a leading place in the consciousness and behavior of religious followers; (3) substitution of the religious spiritual meanings for the magical expectations of a positive effect from religious practices is widespread; (4) state policy in relation to religion and freedom of conscience in Russia balances between the declaration of the secular nature of the state and the use of the religious factor as an instrument of ideological and social consolidation; (5) the devaluation of established religious institutions does not mean the loss of people's religious needs; these needs are realized in new formats for understanding religion; (6) worldview pluralism has become one of the characteristic features of modern public consciousness, the consequences of this pluralism are the multiplicity of worldview and the loss of religion's dominant status in the spiritual sphere; (7) Religious studies are faced with the task of researching and identifying new phenomena in the spiritual life of society, the solution of this problem requires a review of previous interpretations of religion and the development of a new scientific language for describing worldview phenomena.