Abstract

Despite of the large number of papers and empirical studies on religion, sociology still has no integral concept that unites all systematized and elaborated works and concepts paying their attention to the functioning mechanisms of social and cultural transformation of religion in modern society. After all, new forms of religiosity as processes of their origin and development trends require thorough sociological theoretical analysis, not only from the standpoint of cultural separation and describing the specifics of modern religiosity, as with the position of building a fundamentally new model of cultural and religious interaction in contemporary sociological theorizing. In this context, the interest should concentrate on value sphere of society, which is a marker of social priorities and is able to specify a particular type of model creed and religious practices. So, the sphere of values of postmodern societies, primarily derived from the system of dogmas of traditional religions today, much transformed and the differences discovered a number of first principle which determines its new cultural forms, and thus new forms of religiosity. In this sense, an integral mechanism determination of certain new forms of religion except the process of secularization, stands the concept of cultural tradition, which is the appropriate tool to explain the dynamics of ambiguous value and scope of processes in the religious consciousness of society.