GENDER AS AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE: RELIGIOUS STUDIES AND THEOLOGICAL ASPECTS

The relevance of the problem under study is determined by the changing significance of religion in the life of modern man and the emergence of new forms of religiosity and spirituality. The problem of identity, the inner core of human essence, and its independence is one of the main issues of philosophical anthropology, which remains highly relevant at all times. Today, it is determined both by large-scale transformations of religious culture itself and by the tasks of understanding them in a contemporary theological context. The purpose of the study is to determine the perspective of gender in anthropological, religious studies, and theological concepts. Scientific and technological progress and religious culture, expanding the boundaries of control over the surrounding world, mark a point of no return to the traditional understanding of the foundations of human existence in the world. Urbanization, the active spread of new forms of religion and social transformation, the revision of internal moral imperatives, and, at the same time, the growing influence of the mass media and mass culture on people’s consciousness are changing people’s ideas about themselves as natural beings and as religious beings. Philosophy is also undergoing a revision of both methods and theoretical priorities against the backdrop of a general trend away from classical rationalism. This is linked to attempts by religion to solve the problem of human subjectivity, with the gender approach forming and proposing its own methodology for understanding subjectivity within the discourse of gender theory as a new direction in religious studies and theology.