Culture and inculturation in the context of interreligious and intercultural dialogue

Abstract

Until recently, the Church and culture in the confessional sense could not be equal and equal in magnitude. The dichotomy of the Church-Culture dichotomy was denied by both the first and the second. The historical Church tried to stand above the culture, and the culture tried to distance itself from the Church. Perceptions of culture The church was only associated with religious culture, which was defined as the socially reproductive or creative activity of people in the sphere of life and consciousness, which was associated with belief in the supernatural. Religious culture has always been confessionally differentiated, expressing the historically achieved level of development of religious movements (say, sect-denomination-church or religious community - an institutionalized church institution). Religious culture differed in terms of both material (at its core was a religious cult) and spiritual (a system of role models, norms and religious knowledge that were systematically inculcated, fixed by a particular church, and the level of mastery of their followers of this doctrine).