The spirituality in the views of the Soviet and post-Soviet man. Part 2

Abstract

The main objectives of this article are to consider the ideas about the spirituality of the post-Soviet person, the ideas about the spirituality of modern Russian youth (that is, that part of society that will live tomorrow), whether there is continuity in these ideas and what changes have occurred, are studied in more detail. Main methods: analysis of literature, in relation to the present – a mass survey of students of metropolitan and regional universities, in particular, data from an open question about spirituality. The main theoretical and methodological tool is a descriptive-phenomenological approach that allows you to define spirituality in the understanding of its bearers and avoid both theoretical constructions and its actual essential definitions. As a result, the authors of the article managed to come to the following conclusions: modern student youth in socio-cultural terms is the heir not only to Orthodoxy, but also to the ideology of the USSR, understanding spirituality mainly humanistically, and in some cases as an atavism, a relic; interpretations of spirituality were given not religious, but secular, linking a spiritual person with such qualities as kindness, non-conflict, awareness, acceptance of oneself and another; the understanding of spirituality and the spiritual person, characteristic of the Soviet era, as a set of qualities characterising a professional devoted to his work and country, has gone into the past.