The Globalisation Model of World Order: Secularisation of Public Consciousness and the Social Marginalisation of Religious Values

The article examines the trend toward the secularisation of public consciousness characteristic of the secular globalisation era at the turn of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Drawing on Russian and international sociological research and statistical data, the author argues that public consciousness has undergone a sustained process of secularisation, accompanied by social transformations in which religious attitudes historically associated with institutional Christianity — including regular participation in communal worship and the sacraments, engagement with religious doctrine, personal prayer, and the perceived relationship between religious belief and public morality — have lost much of their normative force, even among many individuals who continue to identify with particular religious denominations. As a consequence, traditional Christian values, institutionalised primarily during the Middle Ages and transmitted to later historical periods as normative principles and social expectations, have increasingly moved to the margins of public life. The article further argues that economically developed societies function as the principal centres for the production and dissemination of relativistic and secular worldviews, whereas developing regions tend to adopt these tendencies through processes akin to a demonstration effect.