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This study investigates the metaphor of the wall in the Hebrew Bible as a complex theological and anthropological symbol, deeply rooted in the cultural framework of the ancient Near East. Walls are not merely defensive structures, but markers of sacred space, social identity, moral boundaries, and divine presence. Drawing on key biblical texts such as Joshua 6, Nehemiah 2-6, Isaiah 26, Ezekiel 13, and Zechariah 2, the paper explores how walls function both as instruments of divine protection and as expressions of ...

In this paper, we analyse graphic and multimedia works that the IT design students of the Zagreb University of Applied Sciences (TVZ) created during the semester as part of a communication strategy aimed at the general public. The students used tools and knowledge in graphic design and, taking into account all the settings for creating a quality design solution, presented their visual solutions under the mentorship of their professors. These works were exhibited during June and July 2024 at the Nikola Tesla Techni...

The emergence of a new phenomenon in the mid-twentieth century known as transhumanism has been generating a series of interesting and controversial debates, all over the world. Genetic manipulation, the efforts and the risks to conquer the human have challenged Christianity and contemporary philosophy. This article aims to highlight the points of view of Christian theology in general, as well as Orthodox in particular on the phenomenon. Beyond the polemical rhetoric involved in the necessary debate, it is importan...

The contributions have taken into consideration positive and negative effects of globalization and have drawn on current knowledge in the academic field of intercultural awareness and intercultural communication. They have been theoretically rooted in the definition of culture which has been compared to an iceberg: (1) one part of culture (values and assumption) is beneath the surface; (2) another part of culture (observable behaviours) of the culture is visible. The first part of the contribution has highlighted ...

When we talk about bread and its symbols, thought leads us to the three basic elements of man's existence on earth - earth, water, fire. Without earth and water we do not have the raw material - flour, which is the harvest of the field through wheat, without fire we cannot get the bread. Fire is the one that helps us convert the dough into bread and bread in food and spiritual food. The Fagara? Country, the historical land located along the middle course of the Olt River, in the heart of Transylvania, is a rich hi...

The work includes the results of the research on morphofunctional parameters of the teenagers aged 15–18 of indigenous small peoples of the North. The anthropometric measurements are based on: body weight and length, depot fat composition (indirect calipermetry method). In addition, Quetelet index is calculated, the somatotype structure is determined according to the classification scheme of B. Heath and J. Carter. To assess the respiratory system functional state, the lungs’ vital capacity is assessed, together w...

Issues of regional culture and cultural unity of the peoples of the North Caucasus have been the object of study of many Russian scientists. At the same time, the religious beliefs of each people have unique features, as they evolved under the influence of individual cultural and historical conditions. This article reflects the specific features of the demonology of the peoples of the North Caucasus in the cultural aspect. The author conducted a comparative analysis of the mythological characters of various ethnic...

Article relates to the issue of alternative education and multiculturalism on the example of Roma minority. The author raises a topics of theoretical approach and concept of cultural identity, which is understood as the most important kind of collective identity, which is historically conditioned, cultural method of behavior by a given human collectivity. In considerations in accordance with modern concepts of sociological assumed that identity is not a state but a process. The following sections of the article pr...

In the vast majority of the situations, the scientific papers related to the Romanian folklore have had as main topics types of traditional customs which are interpreted by ensembles and have a somewhat spectacular character in relation to other folkloric categories; which accounts for the fact that they are the ones which are best known both internally and abroad. Songs and “doinas” sung in concerts with audiences, presented with orchestral accompaniment and with literary lyrics (thus, easy to understand by the p...

The article presents the main results of the study of the Ethnography of the road as a separate and specific sphere of the ethnic tradition of the Tungus on the basis of an integrated approach in the coverage of the geoculture of the peripheral ethno-local groups of the Northern Tungus (Åvens and Evenks). The focus of the research attention is the culture of the road as a set of customs, norms of behavior, material attributes and representations associated with direct movements - a fairly new, successfully develop...

In the Old Testament, the family constitutes the basis of the Israelite society. The Hebrew wisdom presents the foundation of a family as the goal of man's life. The first commandment given to man in Paradise was the perpetuation of the human and the domination of the earth (Gen. 1:28). The process of procreation is not a purely biological one and he depends not only on man himself, but God intervenes in his creation, promising many descendants (Gen. 15:5, 16:10, 22:17, 26:4). That is why, in the Old Testament, th...

Since ancient times, people attached special importance to hair and nails. Many traditions are connected with them. Around these particles of the human body there was a whole mythology. According to the view of the Tungus, hair is part of a person and therefore part of the soul. In extraordinary cases, for example, at the onset of any epidemic or after diseases, Tungus cut off from his head on strands of hair and give them to the shaman, for fear that any harmful spirit has not stolen their souls. The shaman keeps...

It is known that cognitive anthropology tries to look at the picture of the world from the inside, through the eyes of the carrier of culture, to understand and describe the world of people of other cultures in their own terms. Most ethnologists-cognitivists are guided by the definition of culture as a system of values, scenarios of behavior, ideal models. It is assumed that each ethnic group has its own system of perception, thinking, behavior, emotions. Currently, the basic concepts of cognitive anthropology can...

The Romanian gastronomy is a very rich branch, very developed, which over the years has gathered a lot of both indigenous elements and some borrowed from other nations and peoples. When it comes to Romanian culinary habits, each geographical area has its own traditions, and these are manifested especially around Christmas, when most people prepare selected dishes. Speaking in general, however, Romanians are used to using tarragon, thyme and garlic when it comes to spices, and a special position in the Romanian cui...

Unlike the Torah, which is given by God from Heaven, royalty belongs to public political life and teaches about order, power and justice. The Israelite kingship is not a purely historical institution, but also a divine one (Ps 89, 28-37). Peace, prosperity, well-being, authority of the Israelite king are images of how God communicates with the people of Israel. The obedience of the Jewish King to the revealed Word of God, the Torah, cancels the monarchic absolutism (Deut. 17:16-17): when the king David stands hims...

The contributions have taken into account positive and negative effects of globalization and have drawn on current knowledge in the academic field of intercultural awareness and intercultural communication. They have been theoretically rooted in the specific definition of culture which has been compared to an iceberg: (1) one part of culture (values and assumption) is beneath the surface; (2) another part of culture (observable behaviors) of the culture is visible. The first part of the paper has highlighted Germa...

The article characterizes the post-perestroika period, which, trying to materialize its life to the detriment of spirituality, has lost the basis of traditional concepts of the people. The stratification of society into the poor and the rich, the blocking of Russia by Western countries, children's films about violence, cruelty, otherworldly forces of darkness, deaden the origins of spirituality. Many peoples of Russia and Eurasia, in an effort to preserve their native culture, began a policy of indigenization agai...

In this work the terms prapatti and tawakkul are considered as similar ones in sense and value in the Vai??ava and Sufi religious and philosophical traditions. Both terms mean the condition of self-surrender to God which lead the devotees to the spiritual realization in the scope of the particular tradition. The doctrine of prapatti take a special place in Vai??avism. It origins arise at least from P?ñcar?tra sa?hit?s and religious poetry of the ??v?rs (aprox. 6-10th cent.). It is regarded as the alternative path ...

Created in the image of God, the man is destined for a perfect life, for the similarity with Him, which must be materialized through the presence of grace in his life. The first man, who wavered in the Garden of Eden between „eating” and „not eating” from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, chose to live no longer close to God and to „win” the distance, the independence, and the existence „outside”. Destined to be person, capable and open to the communion of persons, following the model of the Trinity, the...

The article is devoted to the problem of seeking the criterion which can verify individual`s spiritual transformation by means of philosophical conversion on the way of gaining one`s nature. Experience of the unlimited cosmic whole which usually happens with an individual in one`s childhood as a feeling of the cosmic immensity of one`s small motherlandis takenas a criterion. The basis of such experience is declared to be imagination freed from limitation of the discursive totality. As soon as childhood experience ...

The article discusses the memorial mass tourism in modern Russia. It is noted that in recent years in Russia there has been an increase in the number of citizens traveling around the country. It is shown that the main content of domestic tourism was the preservation of the historical memory of the events of the Second World War. The main tourist sites are the monuments of military glory, memorials, places of battles, mass graves of soldiers and civilians. There are many new routes related to the patriotic themes. ...

This paper focuses on the relation between the rhetoric of J.-F. Lyotard’s late writings, The Confession of Augustine in particular, as well as the philosophical approach to the human body in the thought of J.-L. Nancy (Corpus), and the imagery of the early seven-teenth century English metaphysical poetry of John Donne and George Herbert. In the poems, the sublime topics and affections are introduced in the contrastive light of the symbols of earthly matters and the carnal mind, as well as the metaphors of precisi...

One of the most important elements involved in the formation of cultural security of the state is the institution of the family. It is family values that underlie the formation of the civic position of young people, which are expressed in the awareness of their involvement in the ideas, principles, religions and local cultural values of the state. Despite the obvious huge role of the institution of the family for the society as a whole, this structure is not always stable and sometimes disintegrates before it has ...

Wittgenstein's views have been considered from different perspectives: from the standpoint of logic, philosophy, methodology of science, theory of mind and, finally, from the standpoint of religion, mysticism and myth. However, they are not so often considered from the perspective of natural sciences. Wittgenstein distinguishes between a name and a word. The name is on the surface, while the word affects emotions, penetrating into life. How deep does it penetrate into reality? This issue can be approached from two...

The author highlights some tragic aspects of the Russian diplomacy history after the October Revolution of 1917. The article provides an acute insight into the different periods in which the Soviet diplomatic service had to execute its foreign policy, but at the same time suffered severe losses due to Stalinist persecution. The attention is focused on four People’s Commissars for Foreign Affairs: Lev Trotsky, Georgy Chicherin, Maxim Litvinov and Viacheslav Molotov. Particular tragic was the life of Lev Trotsky, se...

The article is devoted to the study of communicative practices in the system of science which are revealed through interactions mediated by concepts, attitudes, and texts. A distinction is made between information and cognitive exchange in the practice of scientific communication. The questions of the communication semantics in their connection with the problem of understanding and preconception are related to the actual analysis of interdisciplinary dialogue in science. The study of the problems of scientific dis...

Among many skills characteristic of critical thinking, in our opinion, the ability to work with texts is the most important. Working with texts always implies a dialogue between the reader and the author. Regardless of the period when the text was written, each time it is read it is given a new life. Texts focusing on the same problem can present different eras, positions, and perspectives. Students studying texts become researchers who should be able to compare texts and hold a dialogue taking into account the pe...

The aim of the article is to study the epistemological nature of irony, namely, in identifying irony as a way of human mental activity. The importance of the problem is determined by a number of factors, such as searching the solution of the problem of intrinsical knowledge of reality, of the problem of development, structure, forms and capabilities of human reasoning, as well as of the problem of human creative abilities. The article claims that the nature of irony as a way of thinking is connected with the juxta...

The material of expedition ethnographic field studies highlights the history and culture of one of the interesting and distinct ethnolocal groups of Evens living in the Kamchatka Territory. This group of Evens, which had come off the main massif of the Evens of Yakutia and resettled in the middle of the nineteenth century on the territory of modern Kamchatka, was influenced by a number of contact ethnoses, which left a mark on its cultural appearance and ethnographic features. Based on the population census of 192...

Does humanity need certain norms and morals of life, rules of behavior, prohibitions? Why are they needed? These questions always remain controversial and open. Each ethnic group has its own specific moral norms, prohibitions, views on ethical principles, sometimes incomprehensible to others. This paper reveals the traditional ethical norms of the Sakha people behavior, to try to answer to stated above eternal questions. Authors consider a prohibition in traditional culture, based on the religious views of the Sak...

Nietzsche’s various observations about the body undoubtedly represent a fundamental hermeneutic crossroad in the area of the moral reflection on the topic of corporeity. At the same time, the reconstruction of his thought on this delicate subject constitutes a decisive testbed to critically rethink reason, seeking to review its position within the world of the human. The Leitmotif of the body firmly binds to one another Nietzsche’s harsh criticisms of the Western civilisation, which, from Socrates onward, saw the ...

The article is devoted to the analysis of Plotinus’ notion of non-being. As a methodological base of the research, a problem-based approach is applied. The world in the Plotinus’ system is hierarchical. There are two opposite extremes in this world, the One and Matter. Plotinus described the One and Matter enabling us to raise the two questions that constitute the problem of non-being. First, is the One non-being? Secondly, is it necessary to recognize matter as non-being? At the same time, the analysis of The Enn...

An intellective and convulsive spirit (in Madura and Cartage, where he attended his secondary studies, and also in Milan, where he attended Platonist circles), Augustine passed from the knowledge of the sensible world to that of the intelligible, irrevocably fascinated by wisdom perceived as a modus vivendi. He aspired to happiness, yet he did not fully understand it until he was able to know himself. By gaining self-knowledge he understood that there is someone, beyond himself, who helped him discover himself as ...

This article is dedicated to olonkhosuts – carriers and keepers of epic tradition of the Sakha people who from the depths of centuries have created and have kept epic stories about epic heroes of an Aiyy in live oral tradition and have kept for us the Yakut heroic epos, a masterpiece of oral and non-material heritage of all mankind. The Yakut epos – olonkh? is the greatest monument of folklore reflecting in a bright art form the way of life, the world outlook and moral principles of the people, first of all, their...

An extensive literature is devoted to the origin of reindeer breeding; moreover, there is no common opinion on the time and centers of reindeer herding, the ways and forms of its distribution. Some researchers saw in the reindeer herding the oldest form of cattle breeding, which goes back almost to the Palaeolithic traditions. This point of view was supported by V.G. Bogoraz, G.P. Sosnovsky, V.I. Ravdonikas, N. Ya. Marr, U. Sirelius, V. Shmidt, V. Koppers, S. V. Kiselev, S.?. Tokarev and H. Paulhausen [1]. Current...

Marxist conception of philosophy is traditionally associated with communism and new principles of economical formations. Of course, social-economic basis is the crucial milestone of the Marxist theory. But if we look a bit deeper into the philosophic concept we will probably notice that one of the main global goals of the whole theory was the establishment of global system of peace, granted by non-conflict potential of international relations. Thus, for Marxism (international relations), the attention is not only ...

The present paper analyses archaeological and anthropological materials of the Middle Bronze Catacomb culture found in kurgan cemeteries of the Lower Volga area. The specific features of the burial rite, artifacts and cranial pathologies are related to possible migrations of members of some Catacomb cultures from the territories of the North Caucasus, Caucasus and North Pontic area into the open steppes of the the Lower Volga region. Along with innovations in such areas as bronze metallurgy, ceramic production, tr...

In the previous Soviet Union the only and official trend of philosophy was Marxism. After Latvia and other Baltic States regained independence philosophers were free to follow a philosophical trend according to their own scientific interests. Latvian philosophers felt the urge to manifest their intention to regain the true object of investigation of philosophy and mark its origin from the Ancient Greek philosophical thought. With the aim to manifest this intention, a number of philosophers, beginning with the 1990...

Historical facts are not objects. ‘Historical-real’ is constitutively representational and constitutively temporal because it is a process. The question of what is a given truth in history then becomes the dilemma of creating a representative reconstruction of the process of (past) events that is close to the ‘real’ events as they are given in that specific time. Those ‘real’ events have been conceived, represented, lived, created, and narrated. The interweaving of the theory of history and the [cognitive] theory ...

The work can be seen as a consecration, but also as a form of dehumanization, that alienates our human condition. Since the emergence of the industry in so-called "developed" countries, many people have dreamed of a humanizing job. However, the evolution of tasks and the speed of change imposed by technologies engulf many workers with anxiety. It becomes difficult for them to reconcile work and family life or civic engagement. Pope Leo XIII already denounced these constraining, competitive and monopolizing factors...

The article introduces the concept of andragogy ethics as a peripheral andragogy discipline. Discussion of this concept is an expression of the interdisciplinary approach (andragogy, ethics and psychology). It justifies the need to study the development of moral character of adults in the contemporary. The concept studies a human being in current global challenges that neoliberal policies are not able to sufficiently cover. Strengthening of ethical and value dimensions as well as influencing adults through andrago...

There has been a trend towards the destruction of semantic unity between the past, present and future generating significant gaps in social memory of the people in the XXI century. The pace of sociocultural changes become extremely high. All these challenges relate to the process of globalization, strengthening of mass communications unification and unpredictable consequences of modernization projects. Challenges of modern situation demand a participation of new specialists in educational process who have interdis...

The paper focuses on the paradox of material implication with the special reference to the Duns Scotus Law associated therewith. The article contains two different proofs of this law. The paper also seeks to evaluate the role of this law in the proof theory and the damage caused to the latter by the multitude of non-classical approaches in logic which call this law into question. The paper also addresses the conditions upon which the statements about empty sets are possible and evaluates the relevance of material ...

The history of food consumption offers a wide range of thematic and disciplinary facets, lending itself to approaches in economic and environmental, scientific and technical, social and religious history. The aim of this paper is to reconstruct the history of a typical product in a Southern Italian Region, Puglia, to allow us to show the relationship between agriculture, local alimentary tradition, agro-food industry and governmental policies. The idea is to bring out, through the history of a local product, the i...

The article deals with the issues of overcoming ‘dialogue gaps’ risks in non- linear cultural environment. Superfast transformations in different life spheres during transition periods to a new cultural and civilizational development type are caused by scientific and technological innovations, changes in cultural environment and interaction forms complication between individuals, social groups and communities of different cultures generating communicative risks and form expansion of socio-cultural regulators. The ...

The philosophy of mind concerns much about how novelty occurs in the world. The very recent progress in this field inspired by quantum mechanics indicates that symmetry restoration occurs in the mind at the moment when new creative thought arises. Symmetry restoration denotes the moment when one’s cognition leaves ordinary internalized mental schemes such as conceptual categories, heuristics, subjective theories, conventional thinking, or expectations. At this moment, fundamentally new, original thought may arise....

The period of the late 2nd – beginning 1st millennium BC in the Eurasian steppes and in the Lower Volga region was marked by the emergence of cattle breeding which was a new form of nomadic economic order. Some historians associate the transition to semi-nomadic and nomadic economy with climatic changes in the form of increasing processes of aridization and technological prerequisites. In the early Iron Age, along with environmental and economic changes, numerous cultural and ethnic transformations took place. The...

The processes of national self-identification and globalization are closely intertwined in the life of modern society. It is on this basis that their study and understanding should be carried out in correlation. Globalization is a complex set of factors of influence in the modern world, which determine, among other things, the vectors of identification processes. National identity is formed at the boundaries of multiple cultural worlds. The process of national self-identification is a complex and contradictory uni...

This article focuses on the sacred space, on specifics of deploymentand manifestation in the profane world. About hierotopy as a method that allows to study the processes of creation of sacred space and the consciousness of people participating in the process of sacralization. Particular attention is paid to the hierotopic practice of sacralization as the method of transforming profane space into a sacred space. It is accentuatedthe difference between hierophany and hierotopy as two ways of creating a sacred space...

In the Hebrew Scripture, the representation of God is totally forbidden by the second commandment of the Decalogue. The Ten Commandments also debut with the categorical affirmation of One God and with the prohibition to represent Him in some contingent form. Deuteronomy 4:12 is a development of this commandment, insisting that the anthropomorphic representation of God is forbidden, because „no appearance was visible to you, except the voice”. The voice of God is revealed, becomes "visible", perceptible to the sens...