UNDERSTANDING SECULARISM AS A PSEUDO-RELIGION IN THE SECULAR AND CHURCH RESEARCH DISCOURSE

The article examines the phenomenon of secularism from the point of view of its pseudo-religion in the context of church and secular research discussions, as well as on the basis of secular-humanistic program documents. Modern theologians who identify themselves with the Church directly point to this. Researchers of the secular plan, with rare exceptions, do not directly say this, but their reading of secularism, coupled with the content of program documents of a secular-humanistic orientation, allows us to come to a similar conclusion.It is concluded that the modern era of post-secularism includes the phenomenon of secularism as a quasi-religious phenomenon, not an ideological one