Podergina E.E.

Purpose. Study of institutional and non-institutional components of religious pilgrimage of group, organizational and communicative parameters of communities of religious pilgrims. Methods. In the work, methods of comparative analysis are used to compare religious pilgrimage organizations and unformed communities, a structural and functional method for studying the actual functions of religious pilgrimage, a genetic method with the aim of classifying religious pilgrimage as a subject-cult activity. Results. The possibility and expediency of regulating the practice of religious pilgrimage through research and monitoring of institutional and non-institutional channels of communication that take place in the organization and implementation of religious pilgrimage practices is shown. Scientific novelty. The scientific novelty lies in the study of the actual functions and the communication system of modern religious pilgrimage in the aspects of social management.