Religious and worldview strategies of Russian youth
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The article conceptually and empirically substantiates the study of the phenomenon of worldview strategy. Worldview strategy is defined as a conscious, long-term adherence of a person to a certain set of basic value orientations and life meanings experienced by him as truth and good. Using the example of a set of religious and worldview strategies of Russian youth, their quantitative representation and qualitative content are analyzed. The author proposes a typology of such strategies, including 6 taxa: religious, atheistic, agnostic, "spiritual", eclectic and paradoxical. The specified ideal types of religious and worldview strategies are meaningfully verified using indicators representing three main dimensions of worldview: emotional-evaluative (values), cognitive (ideas) and activity (practices). It is shown that the field of religious and worldview orientations of Russian youth today is determined by strategies of a religious and eclectic nature, with some influence of agnostic, atheistic and paradoxical orientations. The main directions of further research are formulated.
Source: Nauka Kultura Obshestvo
Author: Sergey Lebedev
Institution: Belgorod National Research University
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4414588706