Humanities & Social Sciences 3 (2015 8) 542-549 ~ ~ ~ УДК 101.8:215 Subjectifi cation Processes in the Religious Tradition (Problem Statement) Iuriy F. Abramov, Vladimir I. Kuybar’ and Alexei E. Smirnov* Irkutsk State University 1, Karl Marx Str., Irkutsk, 664003, Russia Received 08.11.2014, received in revised form 04.11.2014, accepted 17.01.2015 The objective of the article is to outline the possible fi eld of the religion research related to the processes of subjectifi cation in religious traditions. <...> Various religious traditions form up different type of cultures in psychic activity, or different subject profi les. <...> What happens to the person having religious experience? <...> What is the “mechanism” of the religious experience’ infl uencing the subject habitude of an individual? <...> It is known that in such situation those are not only interests, values, horizons, circle of contacts, but also the perception of reality, habits, types of reactions, attractions and affects that change. <...> What are the subjective transformations of an individual recognizing the relevance of religion? <...> How can this process be described from the structural, nonpsychological point of view? <...> Keywords: subject, subjectifi cation, religious traditions, religious experience, religious practice, social-heterological method, Orthodox tradition. <...> If building the ontology of religiosity is one of the primary tasks of religion studies, then one of its most relevant strands is the problem of creating the theoretical model of the experiencer, the subject of religious experience. <...> The fi rst scholar researching the infl uence of religious experience on the subject and the peculiarities of its existence was W. James. <...> All rights reserved * Corresponding author E-mail address: aesmir@mail.ru # 542 # the works by James that started the fi rst wave of religious experience studies within the framework of psychology of religion that lasted till the late 30-s. <...> Atheistic scholars regarded religious experience and its infl uence on subjective habitude as a result of “brainwash”; the researchers representing the neutral position referred to the impossibility to objectify “the happening” of religious Iuriy F. Abramov, Vladimir I. Kuybar’… Subjectifi cation Processes in the Religious Tradition (Problem Statement) experience, therefore, underlining its unique character. <...> Due to the dramatic growth of new religious <...>