Interpretation of the Concept of Religious Syncretism in Western European and Russian Researches
The article is devoted to religious syncretism, in particular, the history of its research in Western European and Russian science. Most foreign researchers give an ambiguous assessment of the mother concept of syncretism. However, when for Russian researchers syncretism is a universal term used to...
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| description | The article is devoted to religious syncretism, in particular, the history of its research in Western European and Russian science. Most foreign researchers give an ambiguous assessment of the mother concept of syncretism. However, when for Russian researchers syncretism is a universal term used to describe a group of processes and seems not to be problematic, in the Western European scientific community anthropologists and religious scholars have been actively discussing its application for almost fifty years: works devoted to religious syncretism, as a rule, are necessarily accompanied by a number of reservations, and in other cases researchers deliberately avoid it altogether, preferring to use synonymous concepts with a less complicated history. In this way the main objective this paper sets is to compare the visions of the Russian and the foreign academy on the term, map and draw the margins of the conceptual use that both Russian and European scholars share, shedding light on contexts and reasons. Positioning the concept within the field of its use, the text also notes the wide context of the referent phenomenon. Processes of spreading the boundaries of identity and religious self-determination are now taking place against the background of globalization. In this regard, the topic of religious syncretism not only has not lost its relevance, but, on the contrary, is increasingly at the center of religious studies. The author of the article covers the history of the emergence of the concept in religious studies. On the basis of comparative analysis, the traces of the coverage of this phenomenon in scientific publications of Western European and Russian researchers are shown. It is also revealed, how the connotations of the concept of religious syncretism have changed, with the key discrepancies and gaps in scientific approaches identified, and the main types of contexts in which it appears differentiated. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7d68ba2aae2b49dbafad476c230918f22024-04-01T11:29:28ZengMGIMO University PressКонцепт: философия, религия, культура2541-88312619-05402020-12-0144576710.24833/2541-8831-2020-4-16-57-67378Interpretation of the Concept of Religious Syncretism in Western European and Russian ResearchesM. O. Sidakova0Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityThe article is devoted to religious syncretism, in particular, the history of its research in Western European and Russian science. Most foreign researchers give an ambiguous assessment of the mother concept of syncretism. However, when for Russian researchers syncretism is a universal term used to describe a group of processes and seems not to be problematic, in the Western European scientific community anthropologists and religious scholars have been actively discussing its application for almost fifty years: works devoted to religious syncretism, as a rule, are necessarily accompanied by a number of reservations, and in other cases researchers deliberately avoid it altogether, preferring to use synonymous concepts with a less complicated history. In this way the main objective this paper sets is to compare the visions of the Russian and the foreign academy on the term, map and draw the margins of the conceptual use that both Russian and European scholars share, shedding light on contexts and reasons. Positioning the concept within the field of its use, the text also notes the wide context of the referent phenomenon. Processes of spreading the boundaries of identity and religious self-determination are now taking place against the background of globalization. In this regard, the topic of religious syncretism not only has not lost its relevance, but, on the contrary, is increasingly at the center of religious studies. The author of the article covers the history of the emergence of the concept in religious studies. On the basis of comparative analysis, the traces of the coverage of this phenomenon in scientific publications of Western European and Russian researchers are shown. It is also revealed, how the connotations of the concept of religious syncretism have changed, with the key discrepancies and gaps in scientific approaches identified, and the main types of contexts in which it appears differentiated.https://concept.mgimo.ru/jour/article/view/444religious syncretismsyncretic strifepopular religionenculturationsyncretism in western european and russian research |
| spellingShingle | M. O. Sidakova Interpretation of the Concept of Religious Syncretism in Western European and Russian Researches Концепт: философия, религия, культура religious syncretism syncretic strife popular religion enculturation syncretism in western european and russian research |
| title | Interpretation of the Concept of Religious Syncretism in Western European and Russian Researches |
| title_full | Interpretation of the Concept of Religious Syncretism in Western European and Russian Researches |
| title_fullStr | Interpretation of the Concept of Religious Syncretism in Western European and Russian Researches |
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| title_short | Interpretation of the Concept of Religious Syncretism in Western European and Russian Researches |
| title_sort | interpretation of the concept of religious syncretism in western european and russian researches |
| topic | religious syncretism syncretic strife popular religion enculturation syncretism in western european and russian research |
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