Religious factor in the formation of the personality in a multicultural environment
The questions that characterize the influence of religion on identity, which is in terms of multiculturalism. The author proceeds from the fact that religion has traditionally played an important role in the life of society and the individual, helping him to solve vital issues. The influence of religion on the social formation of the person in the society at the junction of the author examines a number of socially-oriented sciences, such as philosophy, religious studies, sociology, pedagogy and psychology. Questions of the social life of the individual and of religion still considered by philosophers-humanists since the Renaissance: J. Locke, Voltaire, D. Diderot. The author emphasizes the dependence of estimates of religious influence on the general trend of the period, and connects them with the level of the character of the religious community as a whole. The author convincingly proves that the socialization of the individual in a multicultural environment is closely linked with various vectors of religious influences on it: the activities of national religions, characteristic of the Crimean Republic, religious organizations and cults typical for the region. The author also notes the negative trends in the religious development of modern society. First of all, we refer to them strengthening inter-religious tension in a multicultural environment. For example, in the Crimea, the problem resides in the area of special attention, and the authorities, and religious organizations. For many years the problem of inter-confessional relations were solved in the course of business, the Interfaith Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea "Peace - the gift of God", a balanced social policy authorities, and because of certain activities of confessional organizations. Another negative trend of the last decades is the proliferation of non-traditional religions of totalitarian sects (White Brotherhood, for Krishna Consciousness), activation of foreign missions. The article shows the possibilities of interaction between public and religious institutions and educational organizations in the social education of the person which is in the stage of their social development. The inhumane conditions of modern social environment of young people is often a tendency to cruelty, aggression and intolerance. Problems of this kind are combined and the secular and religious teachers, secular and religious institutions.