Deviantological studies of clerical environment: antinomies of religious ethics

Abstract

This article contains the theoretical analysis of deviation phenomena in clerical environment; describes the systematic scientific studies to understand the transformation processes that result in destruction of spiritual life of individual, crisis of the traditional system of basic religious values, deformations of personality development, degrading of contemporary society’s moral and ethical milestones. The author analyzed the notion of Deviation; offers the variety approaches of its studying in the religious environment; substantiates the destructive nature of behavior shown by some of the catholic clergy; finds out the possible impact of celibacy on emergence of the clerical deviations; highlightes the problem of sexual crimes committed by modern religious clerics; outlines the questions of correlation of moral and religion; lights up the reaction of public on existence of anomie in a religious environment and attitude toward them Churches. The author defend the idea,  that one of the main tasks of  the present in solving the problems of deviance of modern society is the integration of all areas of modern humanities; their community (synergy); creation on this basis of effective means for the prevention and correction of deviant phenomena.