Categorial semiotics of the elements of religious discourse

The article examines the influence of semiotic drift on the structure of the semiotic meaning of the elements of religious semiosis. An assumption was stated and substantiated, that under the influence of semiotic drift, elements of semiotic meaning related to one level of meaning (in a certain context) with a change in communicative conditions acquire qualities inherent to elements of other structural levels. These changes are analyzed in relation to categorical, subcategorical and hypercategorical levels of meaning.