On October 16, 2013, the Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Art Studies, MGIMO (U)hosted a regular Round Table organized by the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies with the invitation of scientists from other departments of the Institute, as well as from other research centers. MINISTRY OF Foreign Affairs OF THE Russian Federation). The topic of the" round table", which was born at a permanent scientific seminar of the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies in 2013, was the core of the list of problems-defining the boundaries of the semantic spectrum of the concept of "tradition": from the transmission (or translation) of certain values, customs, rituals, socio-cultural" habits " of life from generation to generation to a certain historical epoch a stable (and sometimes unshakeable) system of value orientations of society, and an expanded understanding of tradition as a way to preserve the cultural heritage of humanity. Important for the organizers of the round table was the study of modern forms of traditions: traditionalism, "residual traditionalism", archaization, stagnation, "passeism"; various ways of reproducing traditional value orientations in the modern era, up to political fundamentalism and" integrism"; principles of ethno-confessional intra-communal splits in modern multiethnic societies of the diaspora. Naturally, questions also arose about the meaning of the evolution of traditions as an objective process and the artificial nature of" retrotraditionalization"; about the conditional forms of the existence of traditions in the folk environment in the modern era and in the sphere of mass culture; about the processes of ideologization, popularization and profanation of cultural traditions. The question was also raised about "innovativeness" as a property of culture and human activity, as a natural need to generate new things; about innovation ... Read more