Analysis of digital protest in the religious semiosphere of Russian provincial cities

Digitalization that have been actively developing in Russia over the past ten years have an impact on the protest moods of people who share a religious worldview. The subject of this analysis is the forms of virtual protest activity on the Internet, which are classified as: protest against religion as an institution that protects the existing political, economic and social foundations of Russian society from the atheism and other faiths and religious systems point of view; protest against the existing official confessional hierarchy within the normative religious discourse; protest against internal confessional dogmas aimed at reform or division. Digital protest activity is based on a marginal religious identity that does not affect the normative and confessional discourse, but is formed within the framework of political, mythological, and ideological discourses. Protest moods against religion as a social institution, or atheistic protest correlates with political and socio-economic protest moods in provincial cities of Russia.