Year XXVI, Issue 4, 2017<<Archive>>
Philosophy аnd Rеligion
“GOD’S ELECT NATION” MYTH: RELIGIOUS AND SECULAR DIMENSIONS
The paper analyzes the religious and the secular dimensions of the “God’s elect nation” myth, outlining that associating religion and mythology is one of the social-psychological mechanisms used to create and maintain the nation. The cultural mechanisms of th...
“God’s elect nation” myth; religious; secular; nation; ethnic; conflict; stigmatization; reason
THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH: BUILDING A DOCTRINAL NATIONAL IDENTITY IN THE BEGINNING OF THE 1990S
The building of a national identity for the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) at the beginning of the 1990s can best be understood by examining what are roughly the early years, from 1991 to 1994, when the foundations for the identity building were established....
Russian Orthodox Church; national identity; doctrinal reasoning; 1990s
Philosophy of Arts
THE BEAUTY AND LOVE IN VLADIMIR SOLOVYOV’S WORLD
Vladimir Solovyov has his own unique presence in the philosophical discourse of beauty and love. His endeavor to achieve integrity and completeness in the reincarnation of nature and man is reflected in the presented article.
Solovyov; Dostoevsky; Berdyaev; Plato; beauty; love; nature