Socio-cultural determinants of the personality: political economy, ethnicity and religion, family and schools, informal life events. Personality and character. /part 5/
Religions are different and give a general picture of the world. They are based on the notion that there are forces outside of the material world, which is accompanied by faith in the classical religion for everything being arranged according to the religious covenant. Individuality is a unique combination of qualities and peculiarities of man. People differ in many ways: in what form of value they are; in a form of consciousness; by profession, etc. Dozens of forms of difference can be enumerated. Such a difference is also the difference in religion. Religion in this sense is an idea to comfort the frustrated man.
Religion not only stabilizes public relations but also relieves man's anxious psyche. It takes the form of personal attitude and responsibility of man toward God. If the worldview of a person is embedded in his personality, then we are talking about personality orientation, and if we refer this to religion, then we have the right to talk about religious orientation. The worldview is based on moral-ethical assessments of the attitude of the personality towards the surrounding world and the internalisation of the moral views and the value system existing in society. These views are manifested in the behavior of the person, in his relationships and interactions. For ourselves, the sustainability of worldview is not a valuable feature, as it is associated with conservatism, rigidity and one-sided attitude towards our surrounding reality. In his quest to gain a life experience, he perfected his understanding of the world.
In a sense, these understandings are our religion, be it primitive and inaccurate. The accumulated knowledge leads a person or refuses him to accept any religion. Normally, the religion and the worldview of a person are realized, but like any conscious phenomenon they contain within themselves also irrational components, brought about by education, socialization, social influence, etc. Science can be assumed to resist religion, since the latter is built on the basis of belief that there is a force that is not really proven and can not be demonstrated at least in the development of scientific knowledge. And science is built on real facts and relationships that are objective in character and are verifiable. It rests on conclusions that are experimentally proven. It turns out, however, that even if we stick to science, we believe those who claim to have reached a scientific fact, but we do not have time to check it out. That is, we also rely on faith. And religion does not exclude science; on the contrary, there is no religion that is presented in the first place. It also reflects, rejects, affirms, as any scientific fact.
Many people claim that they are not religious, can not rely on something that has not been proven, and in fact it becomes their religion, which they are trying to assert in the same way as strongly believers. One of the most controversial issues in the modern world is one that affects the religious self-determination of every person. The long persecutions and the imposition of religions in the countries, the forcible acceptance of a religion, the forced renunciation of the other, have already passed through the development of humanity. Demonstrating a democratic attitude towards every ethnicity, people, community is the right to choose one's own religion.