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«И эта тропа священная по земле уходит в небо...»: религиозный натурализм и литургизация природы у М.М. Пришвина
Orthodoxy, while others, on the contrary, notice a critical attitude towards it, emphasizing that he spent almost all his life in religious search. In our opinion, the answer to the question of assessing Prishvin’s religiosity lies in such a phenomenon as religious naturalism, which is expressed in Prishvin’s religious experience of nature, admitting making natural phenomena transcendent and liturgical. In this regard, Prishvin’s religiosity is similar to the worldview of religious naturalists: John Muir, Aldo Leopold, and later, Jerome Stone, Chet Raymo. Prishvin, like Muir, likes to talk about many natural phenomena in a metaphysical sense, as a kind of transcendent reality, seeing in them the manifestation of religious sacred images peculiar to Church culture. Just like Leopold, Prishvin endows nature and its phenomena with subjectivity, emphasizes the feeling of the Whole in the disparity of phenomena. Just like Stone, he notices the inherent goodness of nature, which is usually attributed to God. Prishvin’s views refer us to an understanding of the agnostic and partially apophatic tradition, to the rejection of the affirmation and articulation of the concept of God, as stated by the religious naturalist Chet Raymo, who noted that for a religious naturalist nature surpasses itself, and ambiguity in the judgment of God is not a paradox, but an ideal result. Prishvin, like Muir, likes to speak of many natural phenomena in a metaphysical sense, as a kind of transcendental reality, seeing in them manifestations of religious sacred images inherent in church culture. Like Leopold, Prishvin endows nature and its phenomena with subjectivity, emphasizing a sense of wholeness. Like Stone, he notes the inherent quality of goodness in nature, which is usually attributed to God. Prishvin’s views evoke an understanding of the agnostic and partially apophatic tradition, a refusal to affirm or articulate the concept of God, as expressed by the religious naturalist Chet Raimo, who noted that for a religious naturalist, nature transcends itself, and uncertainty in judgments about God is not a paradox, but an ideal result.