Open AccessCarnivalism of parody religions in the context of popular culture
Author(s) -
Sergey S. Sokovikov
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
kant. socialʹno-gumanitarnye nauki
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2305-8757
DOI - 10.24923/2305-8757.2021-5.5
Subject(s) - religiosity , phenomenon , context (archaeology) , meaning (existential) , intersection (aeronautics) , aesthetics , popular culture , epistemology , sociology , space (punctuation) , history , philosophy , psychology , social psychology , geography , linguistics , media studies , cartography , archaeology
Parody religions are symptomatic phenomena of the cultural space. They signal some of the crisis features of the modern state of the religious sphere. At the same time, parodic religions, travesty of religious images, continue their projection in a transformed, carnivalized form. The most important circumstance is the environment for the emergence of these phenomena - popular culture as a sphere of spontaneous cultural creation. In the analytics devoted to this problem, the specificity of such a socio-cultural context of parody religions is practically not touched upon. Hence, there are many discrepancies and imprecise interpretations of the phenomenon. At the same time, it is his analysis at the intersection of the "new religiosity", carnivalism and the contextual role of popular culture that makes it possible to more accurately determine the origins, actual meaning and prospects of parodic religions, this bizarre fractal of modern culture.