Semantic field «religion» according to the data of associative experiment

The article is devoted to the description of a fragment of the language picture of the world (WLP) – «religion», presented in the form of a semantic field on the basis of the associative experiment data with account of age peculiarities of the examined inhabitants of the Yenisei Siberia. The material for the study is a part of the questionnaires obtained as a result of the free associative experiment in the framework of the grant of Russian Humanitarian Science Foundation. The findings indicate that in the youth linguistic consciousness the zone of religious values is presented in common understanding while in the consciousness of the people of middle age it is filled with the content of spirituality and faith.