The legal mentality in the national cultural space: the era of transformation (on the example of the old believer writings of the XVII century)

Abstract

This article takes a look at various aspects of the national legal and political mindset: discreetly-structural, methodological, cultural, religious, functional, etc. The authors not only distinguish the nature and characteristics of domestic legal (wider politico-legal) mentality, identify its main functions, show the place and significance in the Russian public-legal, but to refract the main theoretical developments through the prism of the little studied in modern jurisprudence, old political and legal ideas, spiritual component which turns out to be extremely interesting and revealing in many ways to explore such a topical issue at the moment, as the legal mindset , political mentality, legal consciousness, legal culture in transition period of development of the state and law, still continuing in Russia early 21st.