Golovushkin Dmitriy Aleksandrovich

3rd Congress of the Russian Religious Society «Religion and Religion: Discourses and Practices»

Dmitriy Alexandrovich Golovushkin PhD in history, associate professor Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia (naberezhnaya reki Moiki, 48/20a, Saint-Petersburg, Russia,191186)
golovushkinda@mail.ru

Golovushkin A. D. 3rd Congress of the Russian Religious Society «Religion and Religion: Discourses and Practices», Religiya. Tserkov’. Obshchestvo. Issledovaniya i publikatsii po teologii i religii [Religion. Church. Society: Research and publications in the field of theology and religious studies], Saint-Petersburg, 2019, vol. 8, pp. 428–430.

doi: 10.24411/2308-0698-2019-00021

Language: Russian

URL: http://rcs-almanac.ru/en/golovushkin-2019-en/

Dialectics of religious renovation: secular and Christian views

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Dmitriy Alexandrovich Golovushkin, PhD in history, associate professor Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia (naberezhnaya reki Moiki, 48/20a, Saint-Petersburg, Russia,191186)

golovushkinda@mail.ru

Golovushkin D. A. Dialectics of religious renovation: secular and Christian views, Religiya. Tserkov’. Obshchestvo. Issledovaniya i publikatsii po teologii i religii [Religion. Church. Society: Research and publications in the field of theology and religious studies], Saint-Petersburg, 2017, vol. 6, pp. 108–124.

doi: 10.24411/2308-0698-2017-00006

Language: Russian

The article attempts to speculate on two topical issues of the modern socio-cultural and religious dynamics: religious renovation of the modernity and it relation to the religious renovation in general. These issues are relatively independent, but at the same time they are inseparable since the format of future socio-cultural community depends on their correlation. In other words, any discussion on this topic rests on the following questions: is it acceptable to reduce the religious renovation of the modernity only to a «turn to religion» or «return of religion»; what gives the right to form the ethos or does the religious renovation of the modernity involve renovation of religion, intensification of theological self-reflection and new forms of religious reformation?
As the secular and Christian discourse at the turn of the 20–21st centuries indicates, the religious renovation of the modernity is conceptualized as the religion’s social action strategy that concedes an inclusion of religious and non-religious ideologies and worldviews into this process. It rises up from the religious renovation as a version of the religious reformation and combines elements of religious fundamentalism and religious modernism, that interact and creatively re-construct under the secular influence and thus convert the religious tradition. As a result, the religious renovation of the modernity and the religious renovation close on each other. It is a kind of a cultural «middle way» that lies between the religious tradition and innovation and focuses on development of alternative options of the social development.

Key words: religion, religious reformation, religious modernism, religious fundamentalism, religious tradition, secularism, secularization, postsecularization

URL: http://rcs-almanac.ru/golovushkin-2017-en/

From religious reform movement to the Church: Problems of institutionalization of Russian Orthodox Renovationism during the Soviet Period of Russian history

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Golovushkin Dmitriy Aleksandrovich, PhD, associate professor, The Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia (St. Petersburg, Russia)

golovushkinda@mail.ru

Golovushkin D. A. From religious reform movement to the Church: Problems of institutionalization of Russian Orthodox Renovationism during the Soviet Period of Russian history, Religiya. Tserkov’. Obshchestvo. Issledovaniya i publikatsii po teologii i religii [Religion. Church. Society: Research and publications in the field of theology and religious studies], Saint-Petersburg, 2014, vol. 3, pp. 70–93.

doi: 10.24411/2308-0698-2014-00005

Language: Russian

The article is dedicated to one of the most important theoretical and methodological issues related to the study of the phenomenon of Russian Orthodox Renovationism of the first half of the 20th century — the problem of institutionalization of the Renovationist movement in the Soviet period of Russian history. It seeks to find out, whether it is possible to consider the creation of the Renovationist church structure in mid-1920s as an evidence for institutionalization of Renovationism as a new religious phenomenon.
The article shows that the classical theories of institutionalization of religion (E. Troeltsch, M. Weber, T. Lukman), linking this process with the fixation of social forms of religion and subsequently identifying the concept of “religious institution” and “religious organization”. At the same time, the concept of institutionalization of traditional religious ideologies, developed by German sociologist N. Luhmann and extended in the notion of “religious model of society” by Russian researcher E. A. Ostrovskaya, can serve as an effective methodological tool. Institutionalization can’t be reduced to creation of institute of religious professionals, it also includes the stage of forming an original religious doctrine and system of theological reflection.
The experience of organizational and ideological development of Renovationism in 1920s was initially developed as a modification of Orthodox reformism, but in 1922–1923 it contained a whole range of fundamental contradictions blocking this process. The materials of the most important events in the history of Renovationism of this period — resolutions of Local Councils of 1923 and 1925 — indicate that Renovationism failed to achieve consistency between the nature and depth of religious reforms, psychology of ordinary believers and social realities of the time, that led to intractable conflict between Renovationism and religious model of the society.
As a consequence, Renovationism of the Soviet era wasn, t able to find self-substantiation and eventually came to leveling. In this regard, it can be argued that Renovationist Church didn, t grow to an independent Church and was as a result of consistent ideological and organizational development (including church split) of religious reform movement within the Ortodox Church.

Key words: Renovationism, Renovationist Split, Renovationist Church, Religious Institute, Religious Institution

URL: http://rcs-almanac.ru/golovushkin-2014-en/