Doctrinal pluralism characteristics of the concept and types of legal regulation and its manifestation in religious relations

The article examines the peculiarities of legal regulation as a scientific category and religious relations as a type of social relations. The author identifies a number of methodological approaches to the definition of legal regulation, its features and content in the context of its manifestation in religious relations. The author emphasizes the existence of pluralism of approaches to the definition of “legal regulation”. Representatives of philosophical and legal science and practice pay the greatest attention to the issues of legal regulation. However, according to the author, the main obstacle to the formation of a unified methodological approach to characterizing the problem of legal regulation is the pluralism of types of legal understanding. The author notes that in modern legal science, when characterizing the category of legal regulation, the terms “legal influence”, “process”, “method”, “function”, “activity”, etc. are used. The author proposes to consider this category in the procedural and activity aspect. On this basis, the author formulates and substantiates his own definitions of the concepts of “legal regulation” and “religious regulation”. All elements of legal regulation are interrelated and interdependent, which makes it possible to speak of the existence of a mechanism of legal regulation. The author also notes that religious relations have specific features that distinguish them from other social relations. They have a dual nature and are expressed, on the one hand, in the sacred relations of a person with a sacred object of faith, and, on the other hand, in relations within the religious activities of a religious organization as a social institution. It is noted that religious regulation, unlike legal regulation, is carried out with the help of a special tool, which is religious norms.

religion, law, legal understanding, legal regulation, religious regulation, religious relations