Religious Communication as the Mean of Spiritual and Moral Value's Translation: Sociological View
Prepared for the Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences: Hinting at Interdisciplinarity, 4th Edition: Revolutions, the Archeology of Change Conference (PHSS 2017), Iasi, Romania, 26th to 27th May 2017
Posted: 26 May 2017
Date Written: May 23, 2017
Abstract
The report is devoted to the problem of spiritual and moral value’s translation during religious communication from sociological perspective. Specificity of religious communication in the translation of spiritual and moral value orientations which can be revealed through the identification of its features. We considered religious communication on the example of Christian preaching. Christian preaching, from a sociological point of view, is a specific type of religious communication. The sermon differs from the usual communication between believers (for example, story of faith or other "advertising" practices such as religious public dancing). These form of religious communication is localized in a certain space-time continuum. In the Christian religion, the locus is the church, where the religious professional start the communication with the believers. Specificity of the value-normative system of Christianity is determined by doctrinal statements, moralizing and ritual rules. The whole system of Christian activity is determinated by the main religiously justified goal - the salvation of the soul. The meaning of the basic Christian value is implemented at the level of religious organizations and concrete religious communications. The sermon, like any communicative system, has a set of meanings and themes, connected with some religious festivals or other events included in sacred calendar. The understanding of preaching is achieved at the level of religious interaction due to the fact there is a resource of sacral knowledge in the communicative system. Specificity of the communicative level of the sermon is based on the meaning fixed in the unchanged sacral text, which has inviolable status. An appeal to the authority of the sacred text, was named by N. Luman "third subject who are not present". It the main characteristic of preaching as religious communication.
Thus, on the example of religious communication in Christianity we made the conclusion that the sermon is one of the communicative means of spiritual and moral value’s translation.
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