Kaminskaya E.A. 1
1 Chelyabinsk State Academy of Culture and Arts
The article tells themes, which relate to problems of understanding cultural meanings, their content, forms. Cultural meanings of religion are described here. Religion is regarded as one of the systems of culture. In this case, it shows as a phenomenon, which have the status of one of the most important ways of thinking about social reality, finding balance and harmony in human life. The historical-genetic relationship of cultural systems of religion and folklore, the similarities and differences between the cultural meanings of religion and traditional folklore are represented here. This folklor is presented as a universal phenomenon, which spans the private «profane» texts of the sphere of sublime, the sacred meanings and the worlds of everyday cultural experience.