THE SPECIFICS OF THE NATIONAL CULTURE OF AZERBAIJAN

Abstract

The global process of cultural development and the change of the value system is actually a variety of national types of cultural dynamics, united in a kind of generalizing construction. In this context, the culture of Azerbaijan can serve as a single example, on the basis of which it is possible to formulate general provisions of the dynamics of culture.

As in the case of other countries and societies, "the multifaceted manifestations of Azerbaijani culture require historical parallels between the past and the present of the existence of this people, a detailed analysis of the traditions that make up the spiritual essence, moral foundations, ethnic characteristics that are the core of the national mentality, the spirit of Azerbaijanis" [Agasieva E. A.].

Leaving aside the archetypes inherent in all peoples, let's focus on the nature of the ethnic picture of the world, trying to identify the specifics of the worldview and ideas about man developed by Shiite Islam on the basis of the Turkic mentality [Note 1]. How they are refracted in the sphere of spirituality, how they influence the formation of the ideological foundations of the modernization of the state and society. Do they have the potential seen by M. Weber in Protestantism, what ethics in this regard can be offered by religious tradition to modern society?

It is important to note that the historical and geopolitical realities of Azerbaijan, which is permanently passing under the aegis of various external centers of influence, contributed to the formation of a plastic, not a symbiotic culture [Note 2]. Even the colonization of Azerbaijan by Russia, which became a new type of socio-cultural shock, since the clash of cultures was no longer within the framework of a single civilization, but a great confrontation: the East – The West did not violate the plastic nature of the Azerbaijani cultural tradition, although its new synthesis of that time was largely determined by Western value orientations.