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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUDN Journal of Sociology</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of Sociology</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Социология</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2313-2272</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2408-8897</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumamba</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">50933</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2313-2272-2026-26-2-380-393</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="edn">ZQHGZJ</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>Theory, Methodology and History of Sociological Research</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Вопросы истории, теории и методологии</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Religious experience in the phenomenological-sociological concept of Gustav Mensching</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Религиозный опыт в феноменолого-социологической концепции Густава Меншинга</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Popov</surname><given-names>E. A.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Попов</surname><given-names>Евгений Александрович</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru">доктор философских наук, профессор кафедры социологии и конфликтологии</bio><email>popov.eug@yandex.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Altai State University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Алтайский государственный университет</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2026-07-18" publication-format="electronic"><day>18</day><month>07</month><year>2026</year></pub-date><volume>26</volume><issue>2</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en"/><issue-title xml:lang="ru"/><fpage>380</fpage><lpage>393</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2026-07-01"><day>01</day><month>07</month><year>2026</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2026, Popov E.A.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2026, Попов Е.А.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2026</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Popov E.A.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Попов Е.А.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/sociology/article/view/50933">https://journals.rudn.ru/sociology/article/view/50933</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>This article presents approaches to the reception of religion proposed by the German sociologist and phenomenologist Gustav Mensching (1901-1978). Mensching’s primary goal was to identify a more meaningful perspective for studying religion in its existential and social essence. He proposed considering the interdisciplinary interaction between sociology of religion and phenomenology of religion, focusing on religious experience as a unifying perspective. The article describes various aspects of reflecting on religion within the religious, social, and existential experience, as proposed by Mensching; identifies the points of convergence between the sociological and phenomenological approaches to religious research, strengthening the position of the so-called phenomenological sociology of religion with an emphasis on the application of intentionality. Mensching reveals the content of religious experience not only within a set of specific religious acts and actions, but also in the interaction between generations. In his concept, the “order of generations” is determined by religious experience, which, together with the social and existential levels of human existence, strengthens the consolidation of individuals. The author’s focus on Mensching’s ideas is explained by two factors: first, he proposed considering religious experience as a reflection of the collective and individual existence of subjects, which persists over an indefinite period, despite possible changes in the nature of religion under the influence of economic and political factors; second, he developed his own sociological approach to the study of religious experience, which can be applied by contemporary researchers.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>В статье представлены варианты рецепции религии, предложенные немецким социологом и феноменологом Густавом Меншингом (1901-1978). Главная цель Меншинга - найти наиболее значимый ракурс исследования религии с точки зрения ее экзистенциальной и социальной сущности. Он предложил учитывать междисциплинарное взаимодействие социологии религии и феноменологии религии, а в качестве объединяющего ракурса сосредоточить внимание на религиозном опыте. В статье охарактеризованы разные аспекты рефлексии религии в границах религиозного, социального и экзистенциального опыта, как предлагал сделать Меншинг. Выявлены точки сопряженности социологического и феноменологического направлений исследований религии, что упрочило позиции так называемой феноменологической социологии религии с акцентом на применении приема интенциональности. Меншинг раскрывает содержание религиозного опыта не только в границах совокупности конкретных религиозных актов и действий, но и во взаимодействии поколений. В его концепции «порядок поколений» определяется религиозным опытом, который вместе с социальным и экзистенциальным уровнями человеческого бытия упрочивает консолидацию индивидов. Обращение к фигуре Меншинга обусловлено двумя моментами: во-первых, он предложил апеллировать к религиозному опыту как отражению коллективного и индивидуального бытия субъектов, причем сохраняющемуся в течение неограниченного времени, несмотря на возможные изменения характера религии под влиянием экономических и политических факторов; во-вторых, он использовал собственный социологический подход в изучении религиозного опыта, который может быть применен современными исследователями.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Gustav Mensching</kwd><kwd>religious experience</kwd><kwd>sociology of religion</kwd><kwd>phenomenology of religion</kwd><kwd>“order of generations”</kwd><kwd>intentionality</kwd><kwd>transfer of experience</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>Густав Меншинг</kwd><kwd>религиозный опыт</kwd><kwd>социология религии</kwd><kwd>феноменология религии</kwd><kwd>«порядок поколений»</kwd><kwd>интенциональность</kwd><kwd>трансляция опыта</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta><fn-group/></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="en">Hegel G.W.F. 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