Postsecular Religiosity: Between Simulation, Superstition AND Hope
The article analyzes the phenomenon of postsecular religiosity observed in Western countries, Russia and one of its regions, the Republic of Buryatia, as well. The core of this phenomenon lies in the desecularization process, i. e. increasing (revival) of the status, role and influence of religion and the church in the society, as well as the change in the balance of religion and secular in various segments of the socio-political and socio-cultural realities. And this phenomenon is contrary to theory of modernization. Despite the sameness of the process in the countries and regions discussed, its historical and cultural foundations vеry significantly. And yet there is something that allows speaking about their great similarity, namely, the «bourgeois religion» (J. B. Metz). In other words, desecularization process takes place under conditions of bourgeois society, i. e. the society, which is based on such values as material and financial well-being, success in the competitions for the best positions in social space, and others. All this compels to speak not so much about the revival of religion and the church, but more about their transformation under this conditions, and a new phenomenon as well.