Modern Downshifting: Socially-psychological and Religious-philosophic Analysis
This article analyzes the current downshifting - phenomenon has acquired a global character in the last decade and a half. The authors consistently reveal the essence of the phenomenon in socio-cultural life of our planet, reveal its sources for the first time in Russian humanitarian science, distinguish its types (full, partial, forced), show the contrast between: 1) Russian and European-American varieties of downshifting; 2) between the asceticism of the medieval saints who renounced the benefits of civilization and our contemporaries, leaving the big cities to the Islands in the oceans or in the countryside. The phenomenon of downshifting is analyzed in religious and philosophical aspects for the first time, from the point of view of secular ethics. In the final conclusions about the prospects of this phenomenon is made.