Madina M. SHAKHBANOVA; Madina B. GIMBATOVA; Olga B. KHALIDOVA; Fatima A. GADZHALOVA and Maysarat K. MUSAEVA
RPGE– Revista on line de Política e Gestão Educacional, Araraquara, v.26, n. esp. 5, e022170, 2022 ISSN: 1519-9029
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22633/rpge.v26i00.17358 3418
The situation is somewhat different with the concept of "religious identity", because its
formation is greatly influenced by the increasingly complex social environment, because, as
one of the types of social identity, religious identity has a noticeable impact on almost all social
areas, among which the influence on attitudes of generalized, interpersonal and institutional
trust.
According to researchers, religious identity, as one of the types of social identity, "is
formed and transmitted due to the presence in public and private space of religious categories
and classifications, religious knowledge, religious values" (RYZHOVA, 2017, p. 46). Under
the religious identity of I.A. Yurasov and O.A. Pavlova understands "the identification of an
individual with any religious doctrine, a system of dogmas, views, a certain confession, a group
of believers" (YURASOV; PAVLOVA, 2018, p. 25), while it is worth noting that they
designate the identity of religious intelligence, understood as "a complex of socio-psychological
characteristics, qualities of an individual that make mystical, religious experiences possible"
(YURASOV; PAVLOVA, 2018, p. 25).
An open discussion of the cult motivation of an individual, the activation of religious
behavior, an increase in the importance of the confessional component in modern society, as
well as other equally important factors are fertile ground for the formation of religious identity,
increase a person's orientation towards self-identification as a representative of a specific ethno-
confessional community. In addition, according to the researchers, the introduction of the
course "Fundamentals of Religious Cultures and Secular Ethics" into the educational school
curriculum plays an important role in the process of forming religious identity at the primary
level of socialization. Religious identity, like other types of social identity, is characterized by
cognitive, emotional, and behavioral components, which determines the significance of self-
identification with a specific group. The indicator of the measurement of religious identity is
the “feeling of intensely experienced connection with fellow believers”. At the same time, it
should be noted that the very nature of religious identity has such properties as superficiality,
mobility, plurality, which allows it to plasticly reflect on the social transformations of the
cultural and political space. According to S. V. Ryzhova,
the plurality of religious identity can be expressed in the fact that, in addition
to the traditional monotheism for Russia (Christianity, Islam, Judaism),
religious identity can also contain components of pagan beliefs, superstitions,
undifferentiated spirituality (in the style of new religious movements); it can
be ideological (or spiritual), cultural, ethno-confessional, when this or that
religiosity is a component of the cultural tradition or culture pushes towards
religious self-identification. The conceptualization of religiosity as a religious
identity does not abolish its "primordial" origin, but allows a more targeted