Religious and worldview strategies of Russian youth
The article conceptually and empirically substantiates the study of the phenomenon of worldview strategy. Worldview strategy is defined as a conscious, long-term adherence of a person to a certain set of basic value orientations and life meanings experienced by him as truth and good. Using the example of a set of religious and worldview strategies of Russian youth, their quantitative representation and qualitative content are analyzed. The author proposes a typology of such strategies, including 6 taxa: religious, atheistic, agnostic, "spiritual", eclectic and paradoxical. The specified ideal types of religious and worldview strategies are meaningfully verified using indicators representing three main dimensions of worldview: emotional-evaluative (values), cognitive (ideas) and activity (practices). It is shown that the field of religious and worldview orientations of Russian youth today is determined by strategies of a religious and eclectic nature, with some influence of agnostic, atheistic and paradoxical orientations. The main directions of further research are formulated.
Authors
- Sergey D. Lebedev (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2545-4055)
Institutions
- Belgorod National Research University (RU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Nauka Kultura Obshestvo
- Published
- 2025-09-29
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.19181/nko.2025.31.3.2
- Primary Topic
- Religious, Philosophical, and Educational Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00