Isaeva V.B. Deprivation and social exclusion as sources of non-traditional religiousity. In: The phenomenon of new religions in the situation of religious pluralism and religious competition. Materials of the International scientific-practical conference. Compiled by M.Yu. Smirnov. 2019 Publisher: Leningrad State University. A.S. Pushkin (St. Petersburg. 2019. P. 70-75.

Abstract

The article is devoted to the consideration of the explanatory possibilities of the sociological theory of deprivation in relation to the phenomenon of non-traditional religiosity. Despite the fact that in the 1970s the deprivation approach lost its relevance, now we can talk about the vitalization of theoretical debate on the relationship between deprivation and religiosity. Among social researchers, as shown by the analysis of theoretical discussion, there is a consensus on the importance of the deprivation factor both for religiosity in general and for religious conversion in particular. However, there is a divergence of opinions on the nature of deprivations: while some scholars associate them exclusively with structural and economic factors [4], others combine this theoretical perspective with cultural reasons, seeing them as the main source of experience of deprivation and religious conversion [9; 2]. This article focuses on the analysis of four conceptual models of religious conversion to take into account the effect of deprivation, developed in the framework of the sociology of religion: institutional (C. Glock), market (R. Stark and W. Bainbridge), non-traditional (P. Norris and R. Inglehart) and existential (R. Stark), as well as the concept of social exclusion formulated in the framework of economic sociology (S. Yaroshenko).