ON THE QUESTION ABOUT THE STRUCTURE OF RELIGIOUS CONSCIOUSNESS (ON THE MATERIAL OF THE WOMAN MYSTICISM OF THE LATE MIDDLE AGES)

Abstract

This article is devoted to the 2-parts structure of the religious consciousness and demonstrates such a
structure on the material of the writings, belonging to German women-Dominicans from the fourteenth
century. The first chapter describes this mental structure as it was understood by the medieval nuns
themselves (topic of the “introjection”). The second chapter gives an explanation for this phenomenon in
scientific concepts and terms (theory of “objectification”). The research is aimed to find a common
approach to the mentioned above 2-parts structure and to indicate its intrinsic logic without any attraction
of religious teachings, created post factum.