THE INTERACTION OF CULTURE AND RELIGION IN THE CONTEXT OF THE PRESENT: THE PHILOSOPHICAL-CULTURAL CONTENT

Abstract

INTRODUCTION The study of the interconnection of culture and religion has a special importance today when humanity is experiencing a deep spiritual crisis and, consequently, moral, ideological and ecological crisis. The relevance of philosophical and cultural understanding of the interrelationship of culture and religion is also linked to the process of post-secularization, which has become a feature of modern spiritual life globally determined not only by the religious sphere but manifested itself in different planes of culture: transfer of cultural values, the dynamics of their modernization in political dimensions. Post-secularism has become a universal concept for describing the state of culture in the early twentieth century. On this evidence, the interaction of culture and religion needs an in-depth and comprehensive analysis, capable of revealing their new touch points, the possibilities and limits of their constructive influence on traditions, innovations, world views and lifestyles of man and society. These and other circumstances have prompted us to pay attention to the philosophical and cultural understanding of the interconnection of culture and religion, which, moving beyond any theory has become an integral part of modernity. In our view, this approach necessitates the synthesis of all existing humanitarian approaches, as well as the systematic analysis of religion as a component of the universe of culture in the diversity of internal connections that exist in culture.