ASPECTS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SECULAR AND RELIGIOUS WORLDVIEWS IN THE PUBLIC DISCOURSE OF ST. PETERSBURG
ASPECTS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SECULAR AND RELIGIOUS WORLDVIEWS IN THE PUBLIC DISCOURSE OF ST. PETERSBURG

Author(s): Alexander Alexandrovich Pelin, Vladimir Dmitrievich Kovalenko, Olga Mikhailovna Gladkaya
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Communication studies, Politics and religion
Published by: Институт друштвених наука
Keywords: secular; religious; discourse; St. Petersburg; Russia
Summary/Abstract: The article actualizes the specific role of St. Petersburg as a significant center of Russian traditional religions, and as a center for the development of art, culture and science; analyzes current trends in both intra-religious and inter-religious contexts; examines the process of the modern religious and secular discourses relationship. In this study the authors address to the methods of content analysis and discourse analysis, supported by a descriptive method. The peculiarity of St. Petersburg in this perspective has a generic specificity of the whole religious and confessional situation in Russia; in many ways, the religious field of modern Russia naturally derives from its historical past, in which there were no large-scale religious conflicts (such as European), also, this past was based on multi-ethnic and multi-confessional composition of the population.

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