MODERNIZATION AND THREE STAGES OF POLITICIZATION OF RELIGION

Abstract

The place and role of religion in the theories of modernization are specified in this article. The author offers her own understanding of the modern stage of religion politicization. It includes three stages - archaic, the dominant feature of which is clan relations; integral, the characteristic feature of which is the activity of religious organizations; and the stage of political institutionalization of religion, conditioned by formation and functioning of political religious parties. The author presents the comparative analyses of the stages of politicization of religion in the foreign countries with Christian and Islam traditions in the course of modernization reforms. It's concluded that depending on the country specificity the constructive / deconstructive role of a politicized religious institute becomes greater within the period of realization of national models of modernization.