PARAMETERS OF TRADITIONAL SPIRITUALITY
K.M. Tovbin
Branch of the Far Eastern Federal University in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia kimito@yandex.ru
Keywords: Tradition, religion, Modern, Postmodern, Christianity, Orthodoxy, transcendence, immanence, Holy, desacralization, secularization, hierarchy, ritual, initiation, dogma
Abstract
The article considers main parameters of traditional spirituality versus post-traditional (modernistic and post-modernistic). The methodology chosen by the author comes from the principles of religious studies of Traditionalistic school. The notions of tradition and religion are compared in this context. The conditional notion of the traditional religion is developed, its main aspects are presented.
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