Religious Consciousness: Specificity, Levels, Representations

The article deals with the problem of religious consciousness. In it debates the view that the core, the main, the most specific characteristic of a religious consciousness is a "belief in supernatural". Different levels of religious consciousness are distinguished: the trivial level (mass consciousness of religious people in everyday life) and the conceptual level (theology, dogmatic teaching, philosophical theology). Forms of represention of religious consciousness are characterized. Special attention is paid to the issue of religious faith, which is an integral part of religious consciousness. Different types of religious persons are distinguished (as well as corresponding types of religious consciousness): 1) individuals with decisive religious orientation; 2) individuals with subdued religious orientation; 3) individuals with unstable religious orientation. The article provides a description of a dialogue reflected in subjectivity of a religious person, which is expressed in a prayer, confession, meditation.