THE ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS IN THE PROCESS OF RELIGIOUS LEGAL RELATIONS

Both legal and religious responsibilities have a positive and a negative aspect of implementation. The reasons for the contradictions between the norms of religion are due to the following factors: uneven development and change of legal and religious norms, the lack of religious regulation of radical ways to change existing religious rules of conduct; features of the content of the legal norms themselves. The norms of religion are more related to the requirements of duties and prohibitions, and to a lesser extent to permission. The definition of religious actors is given and the existing religious actors and their role in the regulation of religious relations are considered. Also, when studying the spheres of activity of one or another, the following characteristics are identified: religious actors in defending their interests are sometimes not able to directly influence the adoption of specific political decisions; they achieve a systemic effect, which consists in “the dissemination of certain knowledge and values, raising awareness of the problem and changing the mass attitude to it, the development of public institutions”. As intercultural, intercivilizational and interreligious interactions intensify, such actors of world politics as representatives of traditional world religions begin to play a special role. Transnational religious actors are often the most authoritative participants in world processes. Religious actors are able to influence the values, behavior and collective choices of large groups of people.