Ethnocultural Renaissance and the Search for the Sacral Basis of Modernisation

The relevance of the topic is related to the modernization of regional ethnic cultures in Russia. Modernity lies at the heart of modern Russian civilization, offering the Western postmodernity with total anomie the imperative of preserving traditions. In turn, Russian modernity, being the heir to the Soviet version, is also transforming, actualizing the paradigm of ethnomodernity, which realizes ethno-cultural human capital.

The author states that the epoch of realization of the ethnocultural potential of the multinational country, which is on the wave of ethno-cultural renaissance, has arrived. One of the conditions for its realization is the search for the sacral beginning in socio-cultural modernization. Today, in a difficult geopolitical situation for Russia, the public order for the ontology of sacred meanings of the development of society, which, unlike many Western countries, retains traditional foundations and morals, has become clear. Such searches are doubly relevant for the northern communities of the national republics of the Russian Federation, which have mainly preserved the mythological subconscious complex, oriented to sacredly colored goals and forms of expression of a decent life in harmony with the surrounding nature.

The basic principles of formulating the sacral beginning for the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) are proposed. The existence of correlation between ethno-cultural renaissance and socio-cultural modernization is stated. Renaissance is a natural cultural response to the unwillingness to break moral and ethical traditions fixed by dissociated ethnosymbolic complex. The first stage of renaissance processes in ethnic culture is manifested in art, folklore genres, revival of the purity and richness of the national language. The second stage includes scientific and technological creativity, commodity production and socio-economic growth. New ethno-cultural mechanisms of ontologisation of modernization development programmes are needed, through the inclusion of ideologemes with sacred beginning.

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