To the Question of the Concept of "Religious Literature"

In relation to the Russian tradition, a narrow understanding of religious literature is associated with a specific expression of Orthodox views, with the development in a work of art of themes related to Orthodoxy. There have always been writers in the literary process whose work was built on the “foundation of a personally gained religious idea” [1, p.235], the essence of which is “the search for ways to transform a person for the sake of transforming the world” [5, p.44]. Among them, of course, are N. V. Gogol, F. M. Dostoevsky, D. Merezhkovsky and others.