The concept of desecularization in the sociology of religion
In this article the author considers the concept of desecularization, suggested by a number of scholars both in the West and in Russia in order to explain current tendencies of gradually increasing religious influence on a social life. The author comes to the conclusion that the concept of desecularization is an ad hoc hypothesis, which has been developed to manage some new facts, which are unexplainable within the old and falsified variant of the theory of secularization. That variant of the theory of secularization declares that the process of “modernization” inevitably causes decline of religion in all senses. In its current form the desecularization hypothesis inadequately interprets ongoing processes because of its integral connection with the theoretical framework of the old concept of secularization and fits only like a simple term of description.