Religious cultural identity: deformations, preservation, development

Identity is the property of self-consciousness of the group or other community which is expressed in the capability to distinguish "their" content from "foreign" and to identify the bearer of this content as "insider" (group member) or "outsider" (not a group member). Identity is a quality or attribute derivative of the identification action. The method of identification is the creation (substantiation) of concepts. The scope of these concepts facilitates to effect the intellectual operations of identification and distinction. Various alternate solutions of identification problem need first of all their own names. The diagnostics of identity deformation is the discovery of the diagnosable pattern and the ideal conceptual model which constitutes community of religious or cultural group. The principle of these differences needs for special denomination. In Christianity the essential difference between the instance of doctrinal statement and the ideal model kept in church tradition, is defined by the term "heresy"...