Abstract

The article examines the concept of holiness (sacredness) as a phenomenon of human culture in close connection with the history of its formation. In the process of analyzing the findings of scientists who studied the nature of the phenomenon of sacredness, the author proves that sacredness is a phenomenon that includes not only religious life, but also cultural and spiritual life in general. Therefore, in this respect, the concept of spirituality is also a concept close to the concept of sacredness. Therefore, he concludes that the idea of sacredness, like spirituality, can be considered as a universal and ahistorical universal core. The analysis of the scientific foundations of the conceptual understanding of sacred or holy values in the Kazakh worldview, originating from ancient Turkic traditions, is considered a novelty of the article.