Faith and language as an integrative feature of religious consciousness in the context of a communicative approach

Religious faith and language are among the tools of the individual's inclusion in society and are therefore the basis of social and political life. The aim of the article is to investigate the communicative space of being faith and language as an integrative feature of religious consciousness from the standpoint of a systematic approach. The theoretical and methodological toolkit is based on the communicative approach and J. Habermas' theory of communicative action. Since society itself is the product of human interactions, faith and language are realized in the process of social information exchange. The author addresses the distortion of communication under the pressure of instrumental rationality and the consequent impoverishment and deformation of faith and language. Language, being a way of rational revival, stimulates communicative interactions, and through them renews faith that can transform the human world. The author distinguishes between religious faith as a permanent passage into the sphere of the incognizable and rational religious faith, aligned with reason, which has the power of action and transforms the human race and its spirituality. Religious faith and language act as a communicative product of the regulative principle, preserving the connections of knowledge past, present with future knowledge on the basis of the activity of the subject of cognition. The practical significance of the study lies in the productive application of its findings in courses on social philosophy as well as philosophy of religion.