The phenomenon of women in the sacred discourse of sociocultural practices

Abstract

The article provides a philosophical and cultural analysis of the phenomenon of women in the sacred discourse of sociocultural practices as a special way of constituting female subjectivity and identity. The relevance of the study is determined by the need to rethink the female experience as an important ontological and culture-creating dimension in the context of contemporary transformations of value orientations, identity crises and secularisation. Women appear not only as objects of social norms, but also as bearers of symbolic and archetypal meanings that shape the cultural memory and spirituality of communities. The study of sacred discourse allows us to combine corporeality and transcendence, individual experience and collective symbolism, revealing the role of female subjectivity in preserving and renewing cultural and spiritual values in the modern sociocultural environment. The purpose of the study is to analyse the phenomenon of women in the sacred discourse of sociocultural practices as a special way of constituting female identity, combining the transcendent dimension of being with everyday forms of sociality. The methodological basis is a synthesis of methods that allowed us to combine philosophical, sociocultural, and anthropological perspectives and comprehensively study the sacred dimension of female subjectivity, in particular discursive-philosophical, mythological-archetypal, historical-comparative, feminist-critical approaches; discursive analysis, anthropological-ethnographic methods. The results of the study are based on an understanding of sacred discourse as a system of symbols, narratives, rituals, and values through which women's experiences acquire a transcendent dimension and cultural legitimacy. It is shown that female subjectivity is formed not only within the boundaries of social roles, but as an ontologically and symbolically charged way of being, rooted in mythological ideas, archetypes, and rites of passage. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of mythological and archetypal structures of femininity, which ensure the continuity of cultural memory and the stability of the symbolic order. Based on material from various cultural traditions, the mechanisms of sacralisation of female corporeality, motherhood, initiation and transition between life stages are revealed. The conclusion states that the phenomenon of women in sacred discourse appears as a cultural-anthropological and philosophical construct rooted in the sacred discourse of sociocultural practices, combining corporeality and transcendence, individual experience and collective tradition, and which is reflected in the mentality of the community, creating conditions for further contemporary critical and feminist rethinking.