Concept of religiosity and structural analysis of religious conversion

Salakhova Dilyara

The term "religiosity" is used to describe a fairly wide range of appearances. In addition, quite certain interests of representatives of different religious groups may be hidden behind this, which in various ways seek to increase the statistical number of adherents of their faith. Religious culture was and still is a marker of an individual's religiosity. In other words, what is ingrained in beliefs and can influence goal-setting and decision-making. A person who avow oneself as a believer makes a conscious religious choice. A person's previous experience affects their religious identity and is a possible reason for switching from one denomination to another. Religious identity can be deformed for different reasons. This may be a discrepancy between experience and social practice, or the impossibility of the desired goal. As a result of contrarieties in the individual's perception arise comparisons of various confessional models.

Keywords:religiosity, religious identity, religious conversion, orthodoxy.