RELIGIOUS IDENTITY, RELIGIOUS PRACTICES AND SPIRITUALITY OF THE POPULATION OF RUSSIA’S ASIAN BORDERLANDS
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religious identity, religious practices, religiosity index, Asian borderlands of Russia
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Svetlana G. Maximova
Email: svet-maximova@yandex.ru
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4613-4966
Daria A. Omelchenko
Email: daria.omelchenko@mail.ru
Oksana E. Noyanzina
Email: noe@list.ru
Maxim B. Maximov
Email: maxbmax69@gmail.com
Abstract
The religious identity of Russian citizens in modern conditions is transformed under the influence of socio-cultural processes of a global nature, often taking individualized forms and combined with practices of reviving interest in religion and its protective, compensatory functions in conditions of uncertainty. In 2022-2023, with the support of the Russian Science Foundation, a sociological study was conducted to examine religious identity, religious practices and spiritual security in the border regions (Altai Territory, Altai Republic, Tyva Republic and Novosibirsk Region, 1868 people). The population of the border regions gravitates towards Orthodoxy (36%), however, significant differentiations in the regional refraction of the religious mosaic. Orthodoxy prevails in the Altai Territory and the Novosibirsk Region, shamanism prevails in Tyva (52%), Burkhanism is represented in the Altai Republic (16%). Moreover, an index of religiosity based on the Huber methodology was calculated in the study. The index is built on the integration of the five structural components of religiosity: intellectual, ideological, public and personal religious practices, and religious experience. The average index of religiosity was 2.41 points, the most religious is the population of the Tuva Republic (2.75), followed by the Altai Republic (2.52), index values below the test norm (2.45) were recorded in the Altai Territory (2.36) and the Novosibirsk Region (2.16). Ideas about religiosity and spirituality are changing and acquiring new meanings in the light of changing social relations between believers and non-believers, emerging new practices and religious organizations.
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Maximova, S. G., Omelchenko, D. A., Noyanzina, O. E., & Maximov, M. B. (2023). RELIGIOUS IDENTITY, RELIGIOUS PRACTICES AND SPIRITUALITY OF THE POPULATION OF RUSSIA’S ASIAN BORDERLANDS. Society and Security Insights, 6(3), 75-95. https://doi.org/10.14258/SSI(2023)3-04
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Huber S. Are Religious Beliefs Relevant in Daily Life? // Religion Inside and Outside Traditional Institutions / Ed. H. Streib. Lieden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2007. P. 211–230.
Huber S. Kerndimensionen, Zentralität und Inhalt. Ein interdisziplinäres Modell der Religiosität. // Journal fur Psychology. 2008 Vol. 16. No. 3. URL: https://www.journal-fuer-psychologie.de/index.php/jfp/article/view/202/105 (Accessed 1 of August 2023).
Huber S., Huber O.W. The centrality of religion scale (CRS) // Religions. 2012. Vol. 3. No. 3. P. 710-724.
Lichterman P. Religion and the construction of civic identity // American Sociological Review. 2008. Vol. 73. No. 1. P. 83-104
Taylor C. The Secular Age. Moscow: BBI, cop. 2017. 967 p.
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Glock, C.Y. (1962). On the Study of Religious Commitment. Religious Education, 57(4) 98–110.
Glock, C.Y. (1973). Religion in Sociological Perspective: Essays in the Empirical Study of Religion. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co.
Hastings, A. et al. (1997). The construction of nationhood: Ethnicity, religion and nationalism. Cambridge University Press.
Howarth, C. (2002). Identity in whose eyes?: the role of representations in identity construction. Journal for the theory of social behavior, 32(2), 145-162.
Huber, S., & Huber, OW (2012). The centrality of religion scale (CRS). Religions, 3(3), 710-724.
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Huber, S., Ackert, M., Scheiblich, H. (2020). Religiosität in unterschiedlichen Religionskulturen. Vergleiche auf der Basis der Centrality of Religiosity Scale. cultura & psyche, 1(1-2), 171-185. Springer Nature Switzerland 10.1007/s43638-020-00007-3.
Lichterman, P. (2008). Religion and the construction of civic identity. American Sociological Review, 73(1), 83-104.
Grishaeva, E.I. (2018). Religious identity as an unfinished project. Prospects for the use of discursive approaches for the sociological study of identity in Orthodox parishes. Research Result. Sociology and management, 4(1), 13–22. (In Russ.).
Ivanov, R.V. (2020). New religiosity and religious identity among youth. Religious identity and intercultural communications (pp.137-143). (In Russ.).
Lebedev, S.D. (2020). The sociological dimension of religiosity: towards a typology of basic approaches. Sociology and society: traditions and innovations in the social development of regions: Collection of reports of the VI All-Russian Sociological Congress, Tyumen, October 14–16, Tyumen: Russian Society of Sociologists (pp. 4962-4979). doi: 10.19181/kongress.2020.584. (In Russ.).
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Ryzhova, S.V. (2016). Features of the study of the religious identity of Russians. Social Research, 10(10), 118-127. (In Russ.).
Sinelina, Yu. Yu. (2011). Cycles of secularization in the history of Russia. Sociological analysis: the end of the XYII – the beginning of the XXI century. Saarbrücken: LAP Lambert Academia Publishing. (In Russ.).
Taylor, C. (2017). The Secular Age. Moscow: BBI.
Fedorova, M.V. (2016). Religious identity in the conceptual space of the sciences of religion. Manuscript, 4-2(66), 168-171. (In Russ.).
Faulkner, D., & De Jong, G. (2011). Religiosity in Five Dimensions: An Empirical Analysis. Sociological Studies, 12, 69–76.
Khlopkova, O.V. (2020). Transformation of approaches to the study of religiosity in the social sciences. Chelovek. Society. Society, 2, 122-130. (In Russ.).
Huber, Sh., Huber, O. (2018). Religiosity Centrality Scale (CRS). Sociology: methodology, methods, mathematical modeling (Sociology: 4M), 47, 144-171. (In Russ.).
Chesnokova, V.F. (2005). In a Close Way: The Process of the Churching of the Population of Russia at the End of the 20th Century. Moscow: Academic Project. (In Russ.).
Hervieu-Léger, D. (2015). In search of certainty: the paradoxes of religiosity in developed modern societies. State, religion, church in Russia and abroad, 1(33), 254–268.