Religious ceremonial sphere of religion: nature and laws of development

• Main Author: Vitaliy Shevchenko
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Ukrainian Association of Researchers of Religion (UARR) 2016-05-01
• Series: Українське Pелігієзнавство
• Online Access: https://uars.info/index.php/uars/article/view/651
• ISSN: 2306-3548; 2617-9792

The cult and ritual sphere is an important component of the religious complex, which is usually understood as a collection of ritual acts related to the worship of supernatural reality (the spirit, God, the Absolute ...) and aimed at achieving the bond of the believer with the object of worship. As an inalienable attribute of the religious phenomenon, the cult was created along with its occurrence and is characterized by the complication of manifestation in the process of historical development. Having an amazingly wide arsenal of expression, the ritual is usually formed on a specific religious basis and includes the cultural and artistic means of realization, ethnological features of embodiment, political and ideological factors of the order. In addition, at the level of interreligious interaction, the ritual ritual complex accumulates many elements of previous beliefs, symbolic and symbolic nature of which allows us to speak about the continuity of the religious tradition. In fact, this feature of ceremonial actions gives grounds to speak of a ritual ritual complex as a unique symbiotic entity, in spite of the fact that religious adherents are often considered to be an exclusive ritual, that is to say, the indisputable nature of their cult professed, whereas in the perception and appreciation of the wider public, associate with the top national achievements, sacred property.