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The question about prospects of saving lifestyle, culture and languages of the Russian northern peoples becomes relevant in connection with the Arctic and Russian northern areas industrial development. Main results of ethnosociological research conducted within the project "Sakha (Yakutia) Republic Foresight – 2050" are presented in the article: a) analysis and forecast of changes in Sakha people identity, language and culture transmission considering urbanization process and generational dynamics; b) basis for ...

This study is a comparative analysis of the specific features of traditional culture in China, Korea, and Japan, which were based on literary games and included ritual wine drinking. The games and rituals of the “wine order” existed for over 2000 years in East Asia as a form of entertainment for the elite. In the East Asia region the special wine culture had played not a minor role along with intellectual game traditions and practices of the poetized attitude to wine drinking have engrained in the representati...

Settlement of socio-economic problems generated by industrialization and globalization requires collaboration and effective cooperation between institutions as well as between socio-professional categories involved in economic activities. The Church's mission is not political, economic or social one, but an essentially religious mission, which is to proclaim the Gospel, to the fulfilment of redemption accomplished by Christ. The duty of the Church is to appeal to those responsible of civil life, so they work in or...

The aim of the study is to identify the value orientations of modern Russian youth which are fundamental in the process of family self-determination. The main task is to identify those values, which determine the process of constructing the family image and comprehension of axiological essence of marriage and childbirth. The identification is based on the analysis of structural and informative interpretations of the “happy family” concept perceived by the today's youth. The analysis of the processes associated...

A reality of an undeniable evidence, that does not require any argument, springs from an exhaustive, philosophical, psychological or sociological research, is certainly the love. This human phenomenon, impregnated with a specific complexity, it is felt, experienced and lived by every human being both on a personal level, in its uniqueness, as well as on the interpersonal level, in the society. Due to its complexity, human love can be perceived and lived, by a certain part of society, as a blind and irresistible pa...

The family of first people, as it is recognized by all developed cultures of human society, the one which consists of Adam and Eve is, naturally, the prototype of the natural family. This natural family, consisting of a man and a woman, has received, along the history of human civilization, the traditional family name. There are currently some anthropological current which refuses to be used this expression about the family. These tendencies want to discredit the traditional family and to promote other types of fa...

Without a doubt, culture is one of the most important characteristics of humans. Technology affects all societies, past and present, to a significant extent and the world of post-humans can only be shaped with the assistance of new technologies. In this article, I will discuss the formation of artificial cultures and try to outline the main features of a society with an artificial culture. The main premise is the recognition of the importance of technology in the formation of post-humans and their cultures. The di...

The aim of the research is investigation of a new phenomenon taking place in mass and information discourse called genre constellation. It is a new term for studies of text, genre and discourse. In linguistics it was used first by Danish scientist L. Hjelmslev. He introduced it to describe correlations in language structure, when two elements are compatible but one doesn't suppose presence of the other. In our work we use the term “genre constellation” to denote a special type of interaction between genres whe...

The article deals with the attitude of the Russian Orthodox Church to the human prenatal development. Due to the increase of high reproductive technologies application around the world including Russia the Russian Orthodox Church admits the necessity of stating its own opinion of the human embryo value. The research is based on the analysis of hagiographical materials, biblical texts, liturgical tradition, church iconography, patristic heritage. The paper concludes that the Russian Church considers the human Embry...

The way one culture perceives another one is a multifaceted social and historical phenomenon. Historical, political, social context forms the basis of attitudes and perceptions. The perception of the “Hebrew text” demonstrated by European cultures is a specific model. The traditional opposition “self-other” becomes actualised in the relations towards the Jews. The opposition is a universal indicator of the attitude towards other people within the same culture. A specific model of religious, social and dome...

The aim of this article is to understand deeper the relationship between the communion with God carried out through the most important Christian celebration, the Eucharist, and the community that celebrates it, the Church, as seen by the Catholic theologian Odo Casel (1886-1948). First we explain why Odo Casel is considered to be the greatest liturgical theologian of the beginning of the 20th century. It was he who found the real and the earliest meaning of terms „mystery” or sacrament and „memorial”, but ...

Every human being, endowed with a healthy mind and body, at an appropriate age, enters into the normal labour climate. We see everywhere people who work with their arms and minds. Work is an existential dimension of the human being. Depending on how it is designed and built, work has unsuspected potentialities. Some people see the work as their chance to acquire as many material possessions, and considers it as the only source to acquire it, in order to meet their tastes, pleasures, their own convenience or vaingl...

The practice of religious tourism is a complex phenomenon that aims visiting the religious buildings, as well as promoting the cultural and spiritual values. Social behaviours, ritual practices, motivations, destinations and manifestations of the pilgrimage have become more diversified throughout history, depending on the requirements and on the specificities of socio-cultural realities. The analysis of the pilgrimage phenomenon can be addressed both quantitatively and qualitatively (the analysis of pilgrims relig...

Man has always had in front of him the problem of eternity and has noticed that the priority given to the matters related to the organization of the eartly life, without the perspective of living the spiritual dimension of life, leads to man's confinement into the social and political dimension of life. Constrained by the limits of his own life, man feels the need to look for the Truth, fact which proves that he is made up of body and soul, having not just bodily needs but also especially psychic (related to the s...

The aim of this paper is to describe some aspects of faith, a way of human righteousness in front of God in Paul's Letter to the Romans. In order to respond to the question of faith as a way of righteousness, after some premises that concern the confessional debates about the main theme of the epistle, our attention will turn to the exegesis of Romans 3:21-26. The exegetic analysis will highlight the two important poles: on one side the righteousness of God, on the other side the faith of the people. The second pa...

The purpose of the article is to consider the directions of notion transformation of safety in conditions of the modern world. The concept of turbulent society is offered, where, by means of the term turbulence, two most characteristic features of this society – unpredictability and fluidity are emphasized. The conceptualization of turbulent society is based on theoretical resources of non-classical ontology. The reality of turbulent society is postulated through the concepts of a network and an assemblage. The ...

The paper deals with the effect of mentality on literary creation. Dialectic of interrelation between human, national and personal was treated using conventional and modern theories of philosophy (on aesthetics, epistemology, axiology), psychology of creativity, cognitive poetics and cognitive linguistics. The objective of the paper is to determine when and how mentality influences writers' artistic understanding of the reality. Research methods were based on a comparative and historical approach with elements of ...

Modern virtual space reaches the stage of saturation of perceived information. Various types of information coexist and are waiting for their intended recipient. A special place within the virtual space occupied by the various phenomena of multimedia features which are examined by experts from various fields of knowledge. Philosophical analysis media phenomena within the virtual space allows you to diagnose and analyze important trends of modern, post informational society. Modern media phenomena (computer games, ...

A significant increase in interest to the cultural heritage of the province and its regional features can be noted in today's socio-cultural space. It†s worth to notice that socio-cultural development of some regions of our country also has a considerable influence on the issue. At the moment, different ethnic groups, social groups and individuals are showing increased interest in self-identification, which is only possible when referring to their cultural heritage. The scientific novelty of this study includes ...

Apophatic theology appears in every religion. The reasons for this approach to theology, however, are different. The present text focuses on the three monotheistic religions: Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. The first part is devoted to analysis of selected religions and how they develop negative theology. In Christianity we deal with Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and Master Eckhart. In Islam, we focus on the arguments submitted by Al Ghazali and Ibn Rushd. In Judaism, we focus on the idea of Maimonides and its...

The current state of society sets new trends into the development of all its spheres. This is reflected in its economic, social, political and cultural sides of the society. New trends in the development of culture emerged in the 20th century. Nowadays the visual information is getting more and more popular, and the new information and computer technologies are helping to spread it. Computer games as a part of virtual world are required a high level of visualization, which affects on human being. In our paper we i...

Among the phenomenons of postmodernism is the highlighting of experience, even exciting approach to all areas of human life. Today's people are flooded by constant repetition of the words "experience", "enjoyment", "to enjoy something" and stressing their necessity for a happy and fulfilling life. Emotionally powerful experience has begun to be considered the key criterion of live faith among many Christian communities and their members, squeezing by a new interpretation of "empirical verifiability" the truths of ...

The aim of this article is to show and critically analyse the explanation - different from traditional approaches - of the nature of mathematics with reference to the social-cultural factors. Speaking of traditional approaches, the author means the traditional approaches of philosophy of mathematics that came into being at the beginning of the 20th century, namely: logicism, intuitionism and formalism. The common feature of traditional approaches is to consider mathematics as a domain of objective knowledge, indep...

Looking beyond the concept of national canons and their selective forgetting of mixed and hybrid pasts, the aim of the paper is to look at the Eastern Adriatic in an anthropological perspective as a historical space which has been shaped by the complexity of migratory processes and interactions between the components of the “eternal triangle” (heredity, environment and culture). We will present the comprehensive results of the holistic anthropological research conducted for several decades in the area, based o...

The efforts to improve the people's living conditions are effective only if they have, as a solid foundation, the citizen's right to private property. This property, even if it can be obtained through inheritance or donation, however, usually is obtained through his work by each person within family, professional associations or labour groups. The purpose whereon the man proposes, as a result of its activities, is the private property, the fruit of his labour. The worker, investing its forces and capabilities in t...

Discourse analysis as a theoretical and methodological perspective can be very useful for the study of stereotypes which can be defined as cognitive representation of social groups. Individuals define and redefine stereotypes using speech forms in is the process of categorizing and self-categorisation. The article focused on examining representations of Polish migrants in the media discourse in four the most opinion-forming dailies. The collected analytical data consisted of 391 articles. It was noted that (1) dis...

The author argues that liberal ideology arose out of Christian concept of man. But in the 20th century, Western European liberalism underwent essential changes. It gave up on the “divine authority” and became more pragmatic. †The Universal Declaration of Human Rights', adopted by the United Nations, in contradistinction to the American †Bill of Rights', does not rest on the claim of the “inalienable rights of man”, which have been endowed by his Creator, but only on the possibility of a consensus betwe...

This article aims to call attention to the dangers of the heteronomous concept of morality in a situation of growing institutionalization of human activities, and justify the need for the autonomous concept of morality. Morality is defined as an important form of social discipline, without which no society can do. The heteronomous conception of morality represents the basis for the utilitarian approach to ethics. The article promotes the idea of necessary connection with the utilitarian approach to ethics and deon...

This paper critically analyses the theory of French philosopher, sociologist, and literary theorist J. F. Lyotard. Jean-Francois Lyotard remains best known for his 1979 study La Condition postmoderne. Lyotard's central concern in the text, the crisis of legitimation, comes to define the postmodern condition. His declared war on "grand narratives" initiates a critical reappraisal of knowledge, aesthetics, and politics in a post-Enlightenment era. Postmodernism, as described by Lyotard, involves a challenge to unive...

Every culture exists and develops in imaginary spaces and real places. As rule these places are always incorporated into ethnic culture and history. Their formation goes along with the formation of the society they belong to. But there is also a type of places that represents by itself an inversion where different spaces or places are mixed together. These places were called heterotopia by French scholar M. Foucault. Some of them represent Utopia and others – Dystopia or Anti-utopia. There are no traditional rel...

The following essay deals with the relation between Jan Patočka's approach to the meaning of life and things and his thoughts on art. First, we point to Patočka's concept of the †shakiness' of accepted or putatively secure meaning. This shakiness, which ensues from an explicit relation to being, enables new perspective to one to conceive true meaning not as obvious or definitive and secured, but as meaning that consists in the †seeking of being', which both enables every conceivable meaning and then shakes i...

The aim of the research is in conceptual analysis of the problem concerning cultural security in Russian discourse. The main task is to systematize in terms of comparative analysis of close terminology in English and Russian scientific discourses (“cultural safety”, “cultural security”, “safety of culture” “культурная безопасность” [“kulturnaya bezopasnost”], “безопасность культуры” [“bezopasnost cultury”], and “культура безопас...

Some principles of the Christian ethics, that are included in the traditional cardinal virtues, have their assertions also in the marital relationships. These are created by concrete person, who has the obligation, to according to his possibilities, present the values, which will benefit not only him, but also the other members of the community. The study, by deductive method, applies the cardinal virtues – justness, tameness, moral power and deliberateness – to the life of marital partners, who try to impleme...

Current research of neuroscientists about the processing of the signals captured from our eyes show that our perception of images occurs in a segmented way into our brain. This paper proposes some implications of this fact in the relationship between drawing and our visual perception. Brief description of the study and used methods. Brief description of the study and used methods.

The appearance of the social media has led the mankind to a new era of social development and social relations, when the exchange and the production of information has become the major human activity. The present article studies the development of Twitter as a cultural phenomenon in Russia and in Great Britain, thus showing that the digital age of social media has enabled cross-cultural communication to become mass scale, supranational and global. Social networks as well as blogging systems involve a person not on...

This article is devoted to the study of communication in behavioural practices Tungus in Northern Siberia. The main results of the study of traditional and modern etiquette; special attention is paid to communication issues of intercultural dialogue. Keywords: ethnography of communication, symbolic anthropology, Northern Tungus, cultural codes, traditional etiquette, behavioral culture, the Person and Nature, valuable orientations, models of social interaction. In this article I would like to highlight the communi...

The increasing mobility of people, the improvement of the mass travel as well as the accommodation and recreational infrastructure development facilitate the tourism activities, and implicitly encourage visiting the Holy Places. Often, the offers of travel agencies neglect the intrinsic aspects of a genuine pilgrimage: the spiritual aspects, the proposal of a faith itinerary and the conservation of sacred aspects into the pilgrimage to the Holy Places. This confusion and the lack of involvement on the part of the ...

The article is devoted to one of the symbols of the Russian national costume – the headdress «kokoshnik», its forms and origin. Attention is concentrated on the headdress in the form of a high ridge. The history of the kokoshnik is seen from XI-XIII centuries, based on archaeological, iconographic, written and ethnographic sources. In the XVIII-XIX centuries kokoshnik was one of the most widespread types of a headdress in Russia. It was mainly an attire of the married woman though the high festive attire of ma...

Strangely, some parts of the Altai Mountains have no petroglyphs at all, while others are like alfresco picture galleries from millennia past. One such place is remote Saldyar, on the banks of the Katun River, a place separated from the outside world by the high jagged peaks of the Saldyarskiy pass. The most popular images on Saldyar: Siberian mountain goat, long horned bull, deer, hunter standing beside the animal. In Saldyar that 5000 years after the first works were carved that they would form one of the greate...

Never before was sociocultural communication as complex as it is these days. Natural character of man represented by his sociability, on the one hand, and curiousity, which make him explore and want to see and understand what is there beyond any border, on the other hand, intertwines with the deconstruction of original physical limitations and great time-space compression of our time. This creates a major common platform (and particular platforms) where plentiful and diverse cultures and their representatives meet...

The paper presents heuristic potential and philosophical interpretation of the concept of “ontological security”, developed in sociology of A. Giddens. This concept is important for understanding gaining security of the individual in risk, liquid and turbulent environment of modern society. Giddens' theory shows how transformations of classical modernity on the way to late modernity (postmodern or radicalized modernity) make social world unpredictable and unstable and change the relationship between time and s...

Each of issues of loneliness and sociality is widely analyzed nowadays. The aim of the paper is to analise them as antithetical or mutually influenced and overlapping poles of human being and existence, i.e. as phenomena of philosophical anthropology. Seeking answers on atributive character (or denying it) of sociality and loneliness is alaborated within essentialist and existentialist methodological approaches. Despite of the mostly accepted viewpoit on definiton of man as social being within essentialist approac...

In the article the problem of definition of extremism and theoretical interpretation of its essence is observed. Modern theoretical extremism researches are characterized by a remarkable variety of methodological approaches and concepts. The attempt to classify them just in the group around the problem of radicalization of social and political movements into violent extremism might result in enumeration of several dozens of sociological and other social theories. Whereby, the notion of extremism maintains its conc...

Naturalism is a view that everything that exists is Nature. There doesn't exist any other reality, apart from the natural one. Naturalists require that all phenomena be expressed taking into account only their natural causes. Natural causes are the ones that are accessible for scientific cognition. Science (physics) tries to describe this reality basing on observation and experiment as a foundation for creating theoretical constructs (theories) pertaining to natural phenomena. Mark Steiner, in his book entitled Th...

The paper is devoted to the explication of the inner mechanism of the teleological method in its relation to values as the principle of historical cognition as it is presented in H. Rickert's philosophy. The problem of the principles and methods of historical cognition is extremely important for contemporary philosophy as its crucial points concern not only basic grounds of historical cognition itself but also the very being of Mankind. One can see that nowadays among historians and philosophers there is not commo...

The purpose of the article is to consider the possibility of using the notion “refraction” in the research of literary translation as a kind of intercultural communication. The author introduces this notion in philosophy of translation in reference with the notion “typological dominant of text”, which is defined as the essential property of a text differentiating it from other types of texts. The typological dominant of literary texts is named “poeticity”. The notion “refraction” is used metaphoric...

South Yenisei during Russian exploration of Siberia at the beginning of the 17th century was part of the North-Mongolian state ruled by Altyn-khans. However, until recently the name of these rulers was known only in connection with one archaeological site in the area. It was a large fortification surrounded by a stone and earth wall on the right bank of the Yenisei River near the estuary of the Sizaya River. Currently, though, it stands to reason that there is the second object of a similar kind detected, a fortif...

Khakass-Minusinsk Basin is known due to a large number of archaeological objects of different types and ages. Among them there are mountain fortresses which were called В«sveВ» by indigenous people. The fortresses were used in the Middle Ages and the early Modern period. Quite a number of fortresses were built at the confluence of the Belyi and Chernyi Yus Rivers in the north of Khakassia. They could have protected a very important object presumably located in the square made by the valley called Albany on the rig...

The community rites performed in the sacred space of the extra funerary votive crucifixes become social artifacts of social communication, supporting the interpersonal relationships within the same nation or community. The direct experience on the subject has been proven by designing, developing and disseminating the project on "Votive Crucifixes and Border Crosses. Their Role and Meaning in the Life of Rural Settlements in Olt County". The project was developed by the Olt Center for Preservation and Development o...

This paper is focused on both the anthropological and biblical theme. The work aims to present a few aspects of the disciple's figure in the Bible, especially in the Gospel of Saint Mathew. In the Gospels, the disciples followed the Saviour and were witnesses of his wonderful words and deeds. After they learned at the school of Jesus, they were sent to continue the work of spreading God's Kingdom. With respect to the theme, the first step is analytical: some general elements of the identity regarding the disciples...