Grynkiv A. The social meaning of religious discursive practices in mass society

The thesis is devoted to the actual problem considering the conditions of the religions in mass society through the analysis of social content of religious discursive practices. Scientific novelty of the study is to clarify the nature, revealing the contents distinguish forms of religious discourse proktyk. Socio-philosophical analysis of religious discursive practices problematyzuye as functioning of religion in social life of society as a whole and its relationship with social processes masovyzatsiyi particular. In this paper, the expediency of introducing the concept of religious discursive practices to study the transformation of religious consciousness, institutional changes, forms of communication, such as delocalization processes religions, the emergence of new quasi-religious entities. Religious discursive practices are regarded as socially conditioned spiritual and practical activity, which aims to spread and deepen religious knowledge and are set in the context of discursive practices that involve the simultaneous functioning of different types of discourse that permeate social and communicative space as information flows.