THE TRANSNATIONAL DIMENSION OF RELIGIOUS PROTEST IN THE NETWORK SOCIETY

This article observes the problem of religious protest. Network communication carries a protest as a constant component of dynamics. Political decisions no longer solve the problem of coping with the protest mood, but try to institutionalize it or maintain it in a controlled state. Most part of the "iceberg" of religious pro- test is poorly investigated. We are always talking about "fundamentalists", "extremists", attempts, one way or another, to mark the "marginals", "evil spirits" of social myth. Our first target may be the desire for self- determination of protest religious groups. The second object is the assertion of the secular identity of ethnic "be- lievers", the transformation of religion into a social project