"The Holy War" and phenomenon of sacred in the patriotic education of youth

Abstract

«The sacred» is understood as a property of objects of reality, events, which are unusual and differ greatly from ordinary things. «Sacred space» and «sacred time period» are considered in the article. The author shows that religious and secular shrines are combined together in a sacred space, manifesting the continuity of traditions. Such properties of sacred time as «something opposed to profane», «inhomogeneity», «heterogeneity» are analyzes in the article. It is shown that sanctification is a process when various phenomena, events, objects of reality become sacred, holy through rituals, through strict order procedure. The article also deals with the objects, events and rituals connected with the memory of the Great patriotic war and touches the problems of patriotic education of the young.