Discursive social practices of language and religious deviation

The article analyzes discursive social practices of language within religious deviance. The historiography and etymology of the concepts of “discourse” and “religious discourse” are examined, and its characteristic features are highlighted. It is noted that the ontology of religious discourse consists of the subject and object of actual reality, and is determined by the degree of religious faith of the individual. A discursive analysis of deviant religious practices can be seen as a concept of religious discourse, represented by the nuclear and peripheral categories. The nuclear zone of deviant religious discourse uses markers of ideological orientation inaccessible to the common average person. The peripheral field of deviant religious discourse contains information of a mass nature. Strategies and tactics in the communication process are different: agitation - used in a group of young people, propaganda - for older people. The aim of the article is to analyze religious discourse in the aspect of a destructive religious community representing its affiliation, articulation through discursive formations. The results of this study, obtained on the basis of the applied methodology of discourse analysis, can be used in courses on social philosophy, history of philosophy, and philosophy of religion.