Metamorphoses of Religious Meanings in the Era of "Post-Secularity"
The article reinterprets the metamorphoses in religious life and cult practice within the framework of the post-secularity of the spiritual life of modern society. It is noted that post-secularity as a phenomenon did not completely isolate the sacred from spiritual life, but gave it new meanings and content associated with the widespread exploitation of spiritual needs of a person, drawing him into an endless race to get a variety of pleasures, sensations, experience, and practice. The consumer society most clearly represents the triumph of the hedonistic, corporeal. As a result, today religion is actualized in a variety of forms, one of which is a profane form of religion that is maximally adapted by the economic class to obtain socio-economic and political benefits. Religious tourism is a visible example of the transit of religious meanings towards the ethics of pleasure. At the same time, canonical pilgrimage is also changing under the pressure of scientific and technological progress and globalization, becoming more comfortable, safe, and closer in formal terms to religious tourism. All this gives rise to claims about the various hypostases that religion takes today: starting from the actual dogmatic foundations, its scientific and theoretical content, to a profane religion that is maximally adapted to obtain economic, political or social benefits.