Transformation of the Moral Values of Occidental Christianity in a Consumer Society

The article focuses on the features of the secularization processes in the modern Western culture. It analyses the inconsistency of the assessment of the religious situation in the Western Europe and the USA.
The researchers attempted to formulate a holistic view about this complex phenomenon. The authors show that with regard to specific features of the secularization in the modern Western culture there is not only the autonomy of the
culture concerning religion and the church, but modernization of Christianity. According to this analysis of secularization, the correlation between the secularization level of the Western culture and Occidental Christianity is established: as free interpretations of the Christian values by the representatives of the churches are fully consistent with the new value orientations in the 20th–21st centuries.
As the results of the research of the secularization processes in the modern Western society, the authors of the article come to conclusion: both the Catholic and Protestant churches legitimized increasingly the hedonistic values of the consumer society.