Religious intellectuals and conventionalization of religion

This paper evaluates the relationship between contemporary religious intellectual trends and the conventionalization of religion. The question is whether the contemporary religious intellectual trend had any role in the conventionalization of religion or not. The answer is positive. To prove the relationship between religious intellectualism and the conventionalization of religion, the paper first concentrates on the concept of conventionalization and topics which help understanding the relationship. The topics are the meaning of religious intellectual, the historical factors and grounds of the formation of religious intellectualism, its characteristics and instructions, religious intellectuals’ reading of religion, and the mechanisms of conventionalization.