Аңдатпа

Sovereign Kazakhstan positions itself as a secular state characterized by a multi-confessional population, multicultural traditions, and worldview pluralism. The state implements policies aimed at ensuring freedom of conscience, religious beliefs, spiritual renewal, and the preservation and strengthening of civil peace and interfaith harmony. Since the 1990s, under the influence of the de-ideologization of public life—including the decline in worldview orientation in education and the transformation of value paradigms alongside changes in the communicative environment—there has been an increasing need to search for spirituality. Religion has come to occupy a leading position among worldview institutions, with religiosity becoming significant within the structure of mental preferences. For more than three decades, the functioning of religious institutions has had a substantial impact on the strategies of worldview identification among believers, non-believers, and atheists. The purpose of the article is to reveal the features of the institutional effects of religion on the worldview and mass consciousness of Kazakhstanis on the basis of generalization of data sets.

The tasks are related to the presentation of the determinative factors that contributed to the scaling of mass religious consciousness, as well as to the identification of significant subjects influencing the ideological preferences of Kazakhstanis. The results revealed a range of both positive and negative assessments of the institutional influence of religion, as well as a wide range of positions depending on the factor of religious commitment. The problematic nature of the studied contexts will increase due to the trend of detraditionalization, ideological diversity, and counter-secularization.

Based on the generalization of statistical data and monitoring studies conducted by the authors, this article presents a philosophical and sociological analysis of the factors influencing the worldview beliefs of Kazakhstani citizens in the context of a new communicative reality.

Keywords: worldview, mass consciousness, religious institutions, factor analysis,
phenomenology of religiosity