Religious worldview, its features and significance

Historically, the first type of worldview wasmythological worldview, which was, in addition to everything else, a special kind of knowledge, a syncretic view, in which representations and world order are scattered and not systematized. It was in the myth, besides the person's ideas about natural phenomena, about himself, that the first religious ideas were also contained. Therefore, in some sources the mythological and religious world view is regarded as one - religious mythological. However, the specificity of the religious worldview is such that it is advisable to separate these concepts, because the mythological and religious forms of the world view have significant differences.

On the one hand, images represented in mythslife were closely related to ritualism and, of course, served as the object of faith and religious worship. In this, religion and myth are very similar. But on the other hand, such their similarity was manifested only at the earliest stages of coexistence, then the religious worldview is formed into an independent type of consciousness and outlook, with its specific features and properties.

The main features of the religious world outlook, which distinguish it from the mythological one, boil down to the fact that:

- Religious worldview provides for the consideration of the universe in its divided state into a natural and supernatural world;

- religion, as a form of outlook, as the main worldview structure implies the relation of faith, and not knowledge;

- a religious worldview presupposesthe possibility of establishing contact between two worlds, natural and supernatural through a specific cult system and ritual. The myth only becomes a religion when it firmly enters the cult system, and, consequently, all mythological ideas, gradually becoming included in the cult, become a dogma.

At this level, the formation of religious norms is already taking place, which, in turn, begin to act as regulators and regulators of public life and even consciousness.

Religious worldview acquires significantsocial functions, the main of which is to help the individual in overcoming their life's troubles and rise to something high, eternal. This is the practical significance of the religious worldview, the impact of which was very noticeable not only on the consciousness of a single person, but also had a huge impact on the course of world history.

If the anthropomorphism is the main parametermyth, the religious worldview describes the surrounding world from the already indicated division into two worlds - natural and supernatural. According to the religious tradition, both these worlds are created and governed by the Lord God, who has the properties of omnipotence, omniscience. In religion, postulates are proclaimed that affirm the supremacy of God not only as a supreme being, but also as the supreme value system of God - is love. Therefore, the basis of the religious worldview is faith - a special type of concept and acceptance of the values ​​of a religious outlook.

From the point of view of formal logic, allthe divine is paradoxical. And from the point of view of religion itself, God, as a substance, requires a different approach from man to mastering and accepting oneself - through faith.

In this contradiction, in fact, there is oneOf the most important paradoxes of the religious worldview. The essence of it is that the understanding of God became an example of phenomenal idealization, which then only began to be applied in science as a methodological principle. The concept and acceptance of God enabled scientists to formulate many tasks and problems of society and man.

In this context, the consideration of God as the main substantive phenomenon of a religious worldview can even be imagined as the most outstanding achievement of Reason.