Features of the religious individualism formation by Danièle Hervieu­Léger

• Main Author: S. V. Trophimov
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Publishing House of Lomonosov Moscow State University 2016-03-01
• Series: Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta: Seriâ 18, Sociologiâ i Politologiâ
• Subjects: даниэль эрвьё-леже; религия в движении; религиозный индивидуализм; светскость; современная религиозная ситуация; религиозные альтернативы; danièle hervieu-léger; religion in movement; modern religious situation; religious individualism; laicity; religious institutions; religious alternatives
• Online Access: https://vestnik.socio.msu.ru/jour/article/view/166
• ISSN: 1029-3736; 2541-8769

The proposed paper outlines concepts of the Religious individualism in modern Western society analyzed by the French sociologist Danièle Hervieu-Léger in “Religion in movement” (1999). Author proposes an assessment of the religious situation in the French society at the end of the XX century. Particular attention is given to crisis of secular regulation of the religious in the modern society. The weakening of the regulatory capacity of religious institutions leads to a weakening of the secular state. Religious institutions should be able to implement the regime of the truth of faith, which makes the institutional power of the superior guarantor of common faith principles shared by all believers of the denomination. Modern institutional disorganization in the religious field, contributing to the destabilization of the French model of secularism, weakened by political cultural and economic liberalization that undermine its principles values that historically based secular system itself. Institutional crisis of the truths of faith approval favors an increase in the number of belief systems of individual communities. The problem can not be solved a priori, legally separating the traditional, “recognized by law” and other religions. The changing religious situation the state must find a new model of interaction with religious groups and organizations. The material is useful for comparative studies of the religious situation in Russia and Western Europe.