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Peculiarities of modern cognition and its enlightening grounds
Authors: Yuschyshyn Oksana
Published: November 2018

With the aim of tracing the peculiarities of modern cognition and its educational explications, we are aware that the fundamental provisions of the stated topic are properly and comprehensively studied. The convincing evidence of this is the hundreds of publications on the most diverse range of issues in the problematic complex, as well as the depth and systematic comprehension of them. Many of these studies can be safely classified as fundamental and combined with the specifics of cognition, whose ideological and aesthetic and cultural-intellectual discourse impresses with interpretive polyphony. Do not make an exception in this context, and domestic researchers, for most of thempost-Soviet realities have become an important factor for scientific and theological reflections, and often also for changing philosophical and methodological approaches to the consideration of the problem of cognition
Neohumanistic vision of "Human of Faith" within the limits of certificate graphic bioarts (on the example of Augustine Hyppon)
Authors: Marchenko Yaroslav
Published: November 2018

The complex of modern sociological and religious studies approaches to the analysis of religious practices in post-sectarian societies makes it possible, among other things, to characterize their biographical aspects. First of all, it is about the ways and means of displaying the "Man of Faith" in the various reference journals, which are traditionally widely represented in secular literature, and have recently become increasingly popular among denominational publications and resources. The latter promotes both the "mature" of the domestic theological centers (and thus the ability to implement significant encyclopedic projects) and the more open intensive work of religious organizations (which entails the need for a variety of popular editions, including personalities). But the landmark change, which radically changed the state of affairs, setting new trends and putting forward fundamentally different goals, was the emergence of new information technologies and their adaptation and use to accumulate and disseminate information about beliefs and their leaders. The most important feature of these newest electronic resources in comparison with the traditional (according to VI Popik) is their potential ability to objectively integrate the information accumulated previously by society in all its diversity, to organically absorb the inheritance of the manuscript and print culture of the past
The Conflict of Russian Theosophical Society and International Roerich Centre for "non-canonical" books of "Agni Yoga" and Meaning of this conflict for Roerich Movement
Authors: Leschynskyy Anatoliy
Published: November 2018

Today, the doctrine of the Living Ethics and its media institution - the Roerich movement - is relatively little studied by academic religious studies. Such a situation is characteristic of both foreign and domestic religious studies. Meanwhile, the Roerich movement and its doctrine, which was actively promoted in the broad masses two decades ago, remains the subject of international religious life. The cells of this movement are also available in Ukraine. The specificity of their present state is that they have significant connections with the post-Soviet Rheerich movement and thus take part in the processes characteristic of this movement. However, both general and individual processes that are developing in the Roerich movement in general, are now out of scientific coverage of their contemporary academic religious studies.
Тhe Symbol of the swastika as the concentration values: сause inversion symbol
Authors: Yarkina Mariya
Published: November 2018

In the process of studying the transformation and inversion of symbols, it becomes clear that the analytic context of socio-cultural axiology, which permits the identification of mechanisms for the formation of values ​​with the help of symbols, is of particular importance for the understanding of the symbol. Since the symbol is the sphere of the functioning of the unconscious, suggestive-emotional influence on a person, he is able to embody those values ​​and achievements that have not yet become the subject of logical and rational knowledge. From the standpoint of history, the swastika is the most ancient and widespread of all graphic symbols. Traditionally, the swastika has a "light" semantic load. The use of this symbol by the Nazis made it the most recognizable element of the twentieth century. with a reputation directly opposite to its ancient meaning. "The Big Soviet Encyclopedia" directly says about the inversion of the symbol: "Hitler and the German fascists made a swastikas with their emblem. Since then, it has become a symbol
European approaches to the development of state-church relations and their impact on realities in Ukraine (second decade of the XXI century).
Authors: Sagan Oleksandr N.
Published: November 2018

An analysis of the European system of values in relation to power relations and confessions / churches allows us to distinguish several basic approaches.
The Restitution of former religious property in Ukraine: current state, problems and solutions
Authors: Vladychenko Larysa
Published: November 2018

The process of restitution of the former religious property began in the first years of Ukraine's independence. The leadership of the state assumed the obligation to return to the religious organizations expropriated property by the former Soviet authorities. However, during the twenty-two years of existence of independent Ukraine, the relevant competent state bodies have not been developed, and accordingly, the integrated mechanism for returning the former religious property to religious organizations has been developed.
In memory of the famous atheistic religious scholar Eugraf Duluman
Authors: Gorkusha Oksana
Published: November 2018

At the 85th year on June 23, the national philosopher, religious scholar-atheist Yevgraf Kalenikovich Duluman, died in the famous scientific and theological circles. He was born on January 6, 1928 in the village of Velyka Bokova Lyubashevsky district of the Odessa region. He recognized the poverty of the Holodomor of 1932-1933, the insults of the years of occupation, half-life (his father died on the margins of the war). The placement of a priest affected the young man's share: after graduating from school, he went to the Odessa theological seminary. After graduating from higher theological and higher secular education - Moscow Theological Academy, Odessa Credit and Economic Institute and the Faculty of Philosophy of the Kiev University. Taras Shevchenko.
Volodymyr Oleksyuk is a philosopher-theologian with a Ukrainian soul (to the 100th anniversary of his birth and the 20th anniversary of his death)
Authors: Kolodnyi Anatolii  M.
Published: November 2018

The national affiliation of the philosopher is determined not by the geographical terrain of his residence, not by the language of the publication of works, not by his favor to a certain philosophical tradition, but above all by the spirit of ethnic consciousness, which with the need to be seen in the content of his writings, their thematic orientation, in the style of philosophizing, the practical orientation of his creative heritage - the desire to help their people in historical self-determination, in its social progress. It is the latter that gives grounds to be attributed to the galaxy of the Ukrainian philosophers of the doctor of philosophy Volodymyr Ilyich Oleksyuk who was born in 1913 - this is one hundred years ago - in the famous Carpathian village of Sheshory, he received secondary education in Kolomyia, philosophical - at Lviv University, at the universities of Freiburg and New York Doctor degree for work "Metaphysical reality of the difference between the essence and existence of existence" V.Oksyuk received in 1967 at the University of East Florida. Since 1970, he lived in Chicago, headed the Ukrainian Catholic Academic Association "Obnov", at the same time was a member of a number of international philosophical societies.
Information Department of Religious Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine to the report of the Section of Social Sciences and Humanities of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine for 2009-2013
Authors: Kolodnyi Anatolii  M. , Bazyk Dmytro
Published: November 2018

Information Department of Religious Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine to the report of the Section of Social Sciences and Humanities of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine for 2009-2013
Improvement of legal normalization of church-state relations in Ukraine - an important condition of the implementation of freedom of conscience and religion by believers
Authors: Kulish N.
Published: November 2018

The article of N. Kulish "Improvement of legal normalization of church-state relations in Ukraine - an important condition of the implementation of freedom of conscience and religion by believers" analyzes the impact of legal normalization of issues of the religious education on modern believer.
Symbiosis okcydental and oriental greek-catholic group as a identity of the UGCC
Authors: Kobryn M.
Published: November 2018

In the article Kobryn Mykhaylo «Symbiosis okcydental and oriental greek-catholic group as a identity of the UGCC» has been investigated the evolution of Okcydental and Oriental identity groups within the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. The concept of «religious identity» has been determined. The interaction and relationship of Okcydental and Oriental Greek- Catholic groups has been analyzed. The method of combining pro-Western and pro-Eastern identity groups in the creation of a common identity of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church has been considered.
Preface. Religion and education
Authors: Fylypovych Liudmyla O.
Published: November 2018

Religion and education are a topic that has emerged relatively recently in the Ukrainian information, research, and educational space. The relationship between religion and education meditated before, but usually in a negative sense. New circumstances also dictate new approaches to the stated topic. Polyphony of thoughts holds in itself and explicit criticism of any possibility of coexistence of religion and education, vulgarly linking religion with obscurantism, which can not bear any enlightenment, blurring the brain of a person. Such pre-historic estimates of religion are less and less popular in society, which in those years has "opened" a religion (as opposed to the present and still existing perception of it as a fantastic reflection in the heads of people of those external forces that prevail over them) as a spiritually rich reality as something that fills the meaning of human existence, defines the vocation of the person asserting it in the world, in society, in their own lives.
Natalia in the international team of religious scholars
Authors: Myroshnykova Olena
Published: November 2018

Natalia Gavrilova was a member of a large international team of scientists who worked in one project on religious education in the modern world. Within two years, colleagues in various parts of the globe made an encyclopedia for free. Together with Lyudmila Filipovich Natalia represented the Ukrainian national section. Her scientific work is a very professional, clear, respectful to the socio-cultural features of the country's study.
Spiritual education in the context of the formation of state-church relations
Authors: Fylypovych Liudmyla O.
Published: November 2018

The democratic transformations that have taken place in our country since independence have laid the foundations for new state-church relations. The relations between the state and the Church in this situation have acquired fundamentally new qualities, which, unlike the past, are characterized by a generally stable partnership, mutual respect and cooperation. Such relations are enshrined in the Constitution of Ukraine, the Law of Ukraine "On Freedom of Conscience and Religious Organizations", other legislative acts and international legal agreements.
The combination of religious and national in the Ukrainian educational space
Authors: Rudakevych Oksana
Published: November 2018

Ukrainian national pedagogy in its development was based on the organic combination of national and Christian ideals. Christian humanity was the norm of interpersonal, interethnic, and everyday social existence of our people. Modern Ukrainian society needs spiritual rehabilitation, which is obviously only possible in the interaction of four fundamental factors: state, church, education system and family. Today it is right to mention the outstanding Ukrainian educator G.Vaschenko, who insisted, first of all, on the implementation of the principle of educational education, which should go under the slogan "service to God and the Motherland", and therefore it is necessary to ensure the unity of national and Christian ideals in the present being of the titular nation. The words of the Ukrainian enlightener A.Richinsky sound like a bitter prophecy: "The result of spiritual fatigue is that the life of the people becomes too materialistic, with the decline of national shrines and unifying ideology, everyone cares only about private interest, the provision of material well-being, feeling already unable to dream about the higher ideals of the nation ". It is the religious worldview that gives a believer a certain amount of values ​​through which he solves the question of the meaning of his existence, his attitude to the world, to the state in which he lives.
Education should not be ignored by religious studies. Letter to Minister I.Vacharchuk
Authors: Kolodnyi Anatolii  M.
Published: November 2018

We received a message about your somewhat incomprehensible attitude towards the teaching of religious studies at higher educational institutions. If your experience at Lviv University gives you a reason to conclude that there is atheism, this is far from the case. I do not have the opportunity to get into the details, but only to add to this letter our work "Academic Religious Studies," the content of which will give you an opportunity to understand what kind of problems should be taught by those who are the teacher of religious studies. One can agree with you that many of those who taught atheism at one time failed to overcome themselves and realize that religious studies may be intertwined with an ideological paradigm - atheistic or theological, but it can and should be academic , the basic principles of which are objectivity, historicism, non-confessionalism, polyspectry and tolerance.
Topical updating of religious studies (taking into account the work of Ternopil scholars)
Authors: Yarotskiy Petro
Published: November 2018

Reading for the second time, or perhaps for the third time, the latest monograph by Arsen Mikhailovich Gudyma "Charisma of Arsen Rychinsky", every time in a new and with a special feeling, you perceive the contributions of Arsenen himself to her scientific arguments, analytical stylistics, patriotic orientation, deep mind, and hot heart. Hoody Undoubtedly, Arsen Nikolayevich, together with other scholars, especially the doctors of philosophical sciences, A.M. Kolodny and O.N.Sagan, the director of the Kremenets Medical College, which is named after the great ethnologist of religion, the candidate of sciences P.E. Mazur, has done incredibly much to discover and appreciate the charisma of A. Rychinsky. For Ukrainian religion, Arsen Rychinsky is an invaluable scientific invention, a high moral authority and, in fact, a contemporary religious science guide.
Influence understanding of the Holy Trinity Christian dogmas on the formation of social and political relations
Authors: Titovskiy Igor
Published: November 2018

Article I.Titovskiy "Influence understanding of the Holy Trinity Christian dogmas on the formation of social and political relations" explores issues of mutual influence of religion and government, which are relevant today for Ukraine, which are able to change their socio-political relations. And since the vast majority of Ukrainian citizens are Christians, then understanding the tenets of the Holy Trinity should contribute its share of Ukrainian assistance to build a new and better society and the state, to which all citizens.
The position of the Catholic denominations in Ukraine in 1953–1964 gg: historiographical review of the problem
Authors: Diduh Taras
Published: November 2018

In the article of Diduh T. H. ―The position of the Catholic denominations in Ukraine in 1953–1964 gg: historiographical review of the problem‖ analyzed the works of domestic researchers on the history of Catholic denominations in Ukraine. Focuses on the analysis of historiographical works, which cover the position of the Roman Catholic and Greek Catholic churches in the area of the western regions of Ukraine for 1953–1964 years.
"Russian World" in 2014: from the "love" of Patriarch Cyril to Putin's aggression
Authors: Pavlenko Pavlo
Published: November 2018

Contemporary Russia gathers its "original Russian lands" under the guise of the "Russian world", dragging historically the "Ancient Rus", that is, all the former Russian lands, including first and foremost the Kiev Rus, without which the whole idea of some kind of "Ancient Rus" simply nothing not worth it We do not accidentally use the word "some" because history does not know the state under such a name.
Some Characteristic Aspects of the Research Approaches to Religious and Philosophic Work of Mykola Berdyaev
Authors: Gorban Richard
Published: November 2018

In his article, ―Some Characteristic Aspects of the Research Approaches to Religious and Philosophic Work of Mykola Berdyaev‖, Richard Gorban considers important aspects of Berdyaev’s study, which influence appropriate assessment of religious and philosophical way of thinking of Berdyaev, from theological standpoint. The researcher points out that the present day situation in Berdyaev’s study requires new approaches, bound with theological fields. Theological approach takes into account religious phenomena, which determine conceptual and philosophical universe of Berdyaev as an entire creed system.The analysis of Berdyaev’s religious and philosophical work can cause research fallibilities if one rejects the thinker’s mythical and religious consciousness and peculiarities of Berdyaev’s discourse, religious and philosophical by its nature, which evolves following the laws of harmonious combination of theological and philosophical fields.
Seventh-day Adventists reformed movement: history and features of institutionalization in Ukraine
Authors: Tregub Ganna
Published: November 2018

Seventh-day Adventists reformed movement: history and features of institutionalization in Ukraine. The article is devoted to consideration of specific processes of institualisation among the reformed Adventist movement (ASDR) in Ukraine. The feature of the process of institutionalization, ie the rise of the modern three different ASDR acting modern Ukrainian territories is analyzed.
Greeting words of M. V. Popovych, the academic and director of the Institute of Philosophy named after G.S.Skovoroda NAS of Ukraine
Authors: Popovych Myroslav
Published: November 2018

With great pleasure, I congratulate the participants of this international scientific conference: the Honorable Apostolic Nuncio in Ukraine, Archbishop Thomas Galicton, the dear Beatitude Lubomyr of Cardinal Husar, respected representatives of all Ukrainian churches and religious organizations present in this hall, and colleagues from religious scholars who come from different regions of Ukraine, and foreign participants in this conference.
Revolution of dignity as a uniting factor of the ukrainian denominations and specific manifestation of ecumenism
Authors: Gorkusha Oksana , Fylypovych Liudmyla O.
Published: November 2018

The article analyzes the events that took place in Ukraine on the verge of 2013–2014. This events are called Dignity Revolution. The authors argue that this revolution was the unifying factor of Ukrainian churches and religious organizations, a kind of manifestation of Christian ecumenism and interreligious understanding that jointly opposed the criminal power, for freedom and independence of Ukraine, for the dignity of every Ukrainian.
You are the salt of the earth: the united religious community's prophetic role in the new ukrainian history
Authors: Petriv Oleksandr
Published: November 2018

As a taste for food, salt symbolizes hospitality; but as an antiseptic it means durability, stability, purity. That is why the symbol of salt in the aforementioned words of Jesus Christ is that the influence of a true Christian on the world, which should be a healing, purifying influence, is always prone to preserving what is good from the harmful elements of spoilage and decay. It should also be noted here that the word "corruption" in Latin translates as "corruption", so for our present we do not need to explain the importance of the purifying effect of "salt" not only on personal but also on social sin degradation.
Anthropological paradigm in the modern theology of german-speaking area
Authors: Shepetyak Oleh
Published: November 2018

In this article the analysis of anthropological concepts which were formulated in the Catholic theology of the German-speaking area in the epoch after the Second Vatican Council is performed. The ideas of K. Rahner, E. Coreth, J. Ratzinger and W. Kasper are represented. The main idea expressed by these thinkers, is the presence of divine origin in the human spirit that defines human nature, completes the human essence and elevates man to the sphere of the transcendent and enables his/her connection with God
The activity of secular Catholic organizations of Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic late 1940–1950 years
Authors: Gura Oleksiy
Published: November 2018

The article deals with analysis of the position of the Roman Catholic Church in the postwar period. The features of socio-cultural activities of religious communities and their consequences are studied.
Some aspects of the history of adventism in Poltava regionat the beginning of XX сentury
Authors: Sitarchuk Roman
Published: November 2018

The documents certify that the first communities of Adventists appeared in Poltava in 1909. Their centres were located in the present area of Dublyanshchyna, Lisok and Zinkivska Street. Adventists maintained their organization till the beginning of the national contents in 1917–1920.
Modern christianity in the light of new testament moral-ethical norms: the Roman Catholic context
Authors: Pavlenko Pavlo
Published: November 2018

The Roman Catholic Church is not experiencing the best of times: here the problem of Islamization of the Christian world, and the degradation of  moral values, the destruction of the institution of marriage and family. Pope Francis proclaims turn the Church back to its New Testament pattern, back to the purity and simplicity of the gospel. Here we need not rebuild the Church and even its reformation, but in the literal sense of its «pivot» back to all 180 degrees to the Evangelical foundations of Apostolic Christianity. Theology women and the theology of the poor is the effective mechanism that starts the process of conversion of Catholicism to the Christianity of Jesus.
Religious organizations as a factor of formation of civil society in Ukraine
Authors: Lavrynovych Olena
Published: November 2018

In the article modern views on the nature and value matrix of civil society are generalized. It is considered the role of religious organizations in forming of civil society in modern Ukraine and also the value of their activity for the self-organization of civil public.
Dignity of human life in the concept of the Catholic Church
Authors: Petryshyn Neonila
Published: November 2018

This article analyzes the problem of the dignity of human life in the official documents of the Catholic Church, in the speeches of the Patriarchs of the Catholic Church, their understanding and transfering them to the realities of current events in Ukraine.
Peace in society as value and principle of "culture of life" (in the light of works S. John Paul II)
Authors: Prysukhin Sergiy
Published: November 2018

The article covers the achievements of the social teachings of the Catholic Church in overcoming the «culture of death» (the social violence in the form of wars, terrorism, etc.) through the consolidation of peace as a component of the values and principles of the «culture of life».
Protestant modernism: history, forms of display in the context of globalization and inculturation of Ukrainian society
Authors: Docush Vitaliy
Published: November 2018

The article deals with the essential characteristics of Protestant  modernism and the main stages of its evolution. The analysis of liberal theology and new orthodoxy which established modern approaches to the interpretation of the fundamental principles of Christianity. A new image architectonics and ideology of Ukrainian Protestantism that arose in the context of globalization and inculturation
Features of contemporary institualisational processes in the communities of consecrated life of Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church
Authors: Nedavnya Olga
Published: November 2018

The article considers the dynamics of various religious orders and other institutes of consecrated life in the UGCC and the characteristics of their institutionalization in the context of the needs of Ukrainian society.
From the theological paradigm of the historical process in cosmography to the creation of the foundations of social anthropology in the philosophy of the Arab Middle Ages: a brilliant breakthrough and a civilization stop
Authors: Borysova Olga
Published: November 2018

In the Borisova’s O. V. article on the basis of analysis of works of some medieval Arabic authors the different models of historical process open up and the of genius attempt of the sharp changing of the Koran picture of the world, accomplished by the Arabic theologian and philosopher Ibn Haldun, is analysed, that, however, appeared unsuccessful. However a negative result is in science is too a result. On some important features of works of the Arabic authors paid attention in science first.
The problems of Christian Ecological Ethics: aspects of research in the writings of John Paul II
Authors: Prysukhin Sergiy
Published: November 2018

The article of Prysukhin S. «The problems of Christian Ecological Ethics: aspects of research in the writings of John Paul II» analyzed the philosophical and theological writings of St. John Paul II, which reveal the essential characteristics of its ecological teaching, phenomenon, the role and importance of ecological ethics in the Christian system of values «culture of life».
The Vatican and the European Union: an understanding on the basis of the establishment of human dignity as a transcendental value
Authors: Yarotskiy Petro
Published: November 2018

This article analyzes the problems, raised by Pope Francis in the European institutions, regarding the development of modern Europe, including the European Union and the place and role of person in this process. Attitude to the historical heritage of contemporary Europe and ways of its development takes priority place in contacts and cooperation of the Vatican and Council Conference of European episcopate of the Catholic Church with the European Parliament and the Council of Europe in the context of modern cultural multipolarity of Europe and strengthening human dignity as the transcendent value.
Religious and philosophical component of modern Ukrainian martial arts (on the example of Boyovy Spas)
Authors: Geraskov Serhii
Published: November 2018

In the article by S. Geraskov «Religious and philosophical component of modern Ukrainian martial arts (on the example of Boyovy Spas)» it is conducted the analysis of religious and philosophical component of Boyovy Spas representing modern Ukrainian martial arts. It is shown that religious and philosophical ideas in Boyovy Spas have been understood mainly in the light of new religious and philosophical movements of non-Ukrainian origin. The author concludes that today there is a tendency of active and accelerated myth making in order to make modern Ukrainian martial arts older.
The canonical structures of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia in the USSR in the era of the collapse of the totalitarian system (1970s – 1980s)
Authors: Soldatov Alexander
Published: November 2018

The article reveals the peculiarities of the functioning of the canonical structures of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad in the USSR (in particular, in Ukraine) during the era of the collapse of the totalitarian system - 1970-1980.
Religion and Church in the vision of Ivan Franko. To the Frankivsk anniversaries in 2016
Authors: Kolodnyi Anatolii M.
Published: November 2018

In the well-known worldview and praxeologic typology of the Ukrainian man, which was held by M. Shlemkevich, the Frankivsk man is absent. At the same time, the researcher does not substantiate his vision of the peculiarities of the religiosity of Ivan Franko. Rather, he proceeded from the identification of free-thinking with atheism and did not recognize the existence of religious free-thinking among Ukrainians. Meanwhile, it is dominant. The fact is that the Church somehow perceive freedom of religion, freedom of religion, but each of them does not allow itself freedom In religion, freedom In its religion. Any deviation from the dogmas or canons, the arbitrary interpretation of certain provisions of the doctrine, and especially the anti-clericalism, is perceived as heresy, and ultimately qualifies as atheism. That is why Ivan Franko was uncomfortable with the church leadership of the Greek Catholics of Galicia, and the Orthodox enjoyed his works, where he criticized the Vatican, his policy on Slavs. About the work of the thinker, in which they considered worldview problems, did not even speak
Christian tradition of state formation and individual constants of the interpretation of Christ's doctrine
Authors: Isaenko Maxim
Published: November 2018

In the proposed article by Maxim Isaenko "Ukrainian Christian tradition of state creation ... "on the question of application A comparative methodological approach is presented in the analysis conceptual dispositions available in Ukrainian, Polish, and Russian types of state-building and organization of power institutions. Studying socio-legal models that are characteristic of three Slavic peoples, vectors of kinship and distance are outlined understanding of the phenomena of the state, power, law.
John Paul II about the logic of the dialogue between the Catholic Church and Islam
Authors: Prysukhin Sergiy
Published: November 2018

The article of Sergiy Prysukhin «John Paul II about the logic of the dialogue between the Catholic Church and Islam» is devoted to philosophical and theological developments of Pope John Paul II in relation to the analysis of substantial characteristics of the concept «dialogue between Catholicism and Islam», and the logic of its implementation in a complex and contradictory present
The process of humiliating the traditional sacred functions of religious organizations and "entering the world"
Authors: Yarotskiy Petro
Published: November 2018

Traditional sacral function of religion in the modern globalized and secular era is undergoing increasing transformation, that research in this article the following issues shows: human dignity as the highest value – anthropocentric and theistic dimension; development of secular Europe: Catholic and Orthodox opinion; the conception of permanent worlds’ development and «ecological spirituality» instead of theology of individual salvation.
Formation of the image of military chaplains in Ukraine
Authors: Kalenychenko T. A.
Published: November 2018

Kalenychenko T. A. Since the spring of 2014, we can observe the movement of update of military chaplaincy, the emergence of mass volunteering by religious leaders. While Ukraine only continues to develop a new Chaplaincy service, society has already received the first presentation about the priests at the forefront thanks to the work of the Ukrainian media. In this article, author examines the messages about the military chaplaincy of key media and analyzes the way in which the image was formed from the military chaplain to a secular society, and the role it has assumed.
Repressions against non-Moskov-Orthodox Christians in the Donbass
Authors: Karpitsky M.
Published: November 2018

In the article by M. Karpitsky "Repressions against Non-Moscow Orthodox Christians in the Donbass" on concrete facts it is shown how the persecution of separatists and with what motivation are found in the Donbass territory by the faithful of Protestant communities, the Churches of the Kyiv Patriarchate, the Greek Catholic Church and the Roman Catholic Church. It is talked about how they manage to survive in constant persecution and torture
State documents on the examination of religious life
Authors: Yurush Andriy
Published: November 2018

State documents on the examination of religious life
Православ'я України і національна безпека
Authors: Саган Олександр Назарович
Published: November 2018

Чи можна і чи потрібно розглядати події внутрішньоцерковного і міжцерковного православного життя України через призму національної безпеки? Наявними якими є больові точки у відносинах Української держави і православних Церков? Чи працює в Україні законодавство, яке регулює державно-церковні відносини і чи є воно україноцентричним? Ці та інші питання були об‘єктом розгляду експертного Круглого столу на тему: «Боротьба ідентичностей у православ‘ї України після «Революції гідності»: аспект національної безпеки», який відбувся в Києві 1 липня 2014 року. Організаторами заходу виступили Всеукраїнське товариство «Просвіта» імені Тараса Шевченка та Українська Асоціація релігієзнавців. У роботі Круглого столу, окрім представників організаторів цієї конференції, взяли участь експерти із УПЦ КП, УПЦ МП, всеукраїнського православного братства Андрія Первозванного УПЦ КП, науковці та громадські діячі з різних міст і регіонів країни, інші зацікавлені особи.
Dialogue of religion and science: aspects of research in the writings of John Paul II
Authors: Prysukhin Sergiy
Published: November 2018

The article analyzes the philosophical and the theological reflections of John Paul II in relation to the essential characteristics of a dialogue of religion and modern science, the task of its improvement in the context of the formation and development of the culture of life (the concept of John Paul II).
Category of Love as a axiological marker by individual religiosity of the Orthodox believer
Authors: Kulagina-Stadnichenko Hanna
Published: November 2018

Hanna Kulagina-Stadnichenko in her article “Category of Love as a axiological marker by individual religiosity of the Orthodox believer” is examines the love category in the theological context of the present, to determine its axiological and praxeological potential value to the implementation of individual religious Orthodox believer, identify certain impacts related to the practical implementation of the concept of "love" in Orthodoxy.
Migrant crisis in Europe: challenges for interreligious relations
Authors: Aristova Alla
Published: November 2018

The article of Alla Aristova «Migrant crisis in Europe: challenges for interreligious relations» identifies and classifies main features of the current wave of migration from the Muslim countries to Europe, its differences from the previous migration inflows of the last century, and the potential impact on inter-religious relations, social and religious processes in European society.
The situation on the celebration of the Millennium in the so-called presence of the "Russian Church" on Mount Athos
Authors: Dernovy Vitaliy , Yarotskiy Petro
Published: November 2018

The leadership of the Russian Federation made visible organization and invested significant financial resources in support of the Russian Orthodox Church, making the latter a cementing ideological component of the Moscow government, its various aggressive policy. So, since 2012, the state support for the 2016 year celebration of the "1000th anniversary of the Russian presence on Athos" has begun. On this occasion, a special order of Russian President Vladimir Putin on October 16, 2012 for №468-rp "On creation of working groups ...". The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine appealed to the Specialized Department of the Department of Religious Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine with a request to comment on the next aspiration of the Russian Federation to steal Ukrainian history, attributing to itself what the Muscovites do not have any direct relation to.
The church is an active participant in the establishment of civil society (Maidan 2013-2014).
Authors: Gorkusha Oksana , Fylypovych Liudmyla O.
Published: November 2018

The direct immersion in the fateful event of the Maidan for Ukraine made it possible to keep a conscious mind on the pulse of its course while at the same time contributing to a critical understanding of its information display. In the title of our book, "Maidan and the Church: Chronicle of Events and Expert Evaluation" (K, 2014), there was fixed a problem core, on which we were trampled by all illustrative documents and expert assessments: the ownership of the Maidan (and it is an effective model of civil society that emerged in in response to modern Ukraine and in opposition to the rude attempts by the authorities to stop the historical and spiritual progress of the people, encapsulating Ukraine in the previous forms of life and consciousness) and the Church - a religious community formed in accordance with spiritual needs and requests from civil society and becomes an inalienable, equal subject.
Eternal life in religious memory
Authors: Kolodnyi Anatolii  M.
Published: November 2018

We are all mortal. A religious person finds comfort in this eternal life in faith in some eternal afterlife, strives to promote some supernatural forces and, through the mediation of clergy and various ritual activities, to receive it and continue there, in fiftaazed by it or derived from denominational teachings, in other words in complete bliss your immortality. The achievement of the saving mission of Jesus Christ in his religion is that he "died death overcame". Christianity thus emerged as a spiritual means of satisfying the desires of the faithful to immortality. However, in such immortality, they are taught only to believe, because in reality even the resurrection of Jesus Christ is not proven, moreover, and fifthasized, because in the Gospel of Matthew (Ch. 27-28) it is simply said about the abduction and transference of his body. For a Christian, if Jesus did not resurrect, then faith in him is useless.
Modernization in the politicization of religion as an instrument of its institutional expansion and integration in the secular world
Authors: Pavlenko Pavlo
Published: November 2018

We live in a time when the religious outlook is rapidly losing its popularity. According to the Gallup International Association, which studied religiosity levels in 57 countries around the world, covering about 70% of the world's population, more than half the earthlings, 59%, regard themselves as religious people, while 23% said they were not religious and 13 % generally refer to themselves as convinced atheists. As a result, 36% of people do not have religious beliefs. These data prove the fact that in recent years, 9% of humanity has broken with religion.
Minority as a form of organization of religious existence
Authors: Tatarchuk Mariana
Published: November 2018

In today's conditions of Ukraine's development, strengthening its legal foundation and establishing a democratic civil society is an urgent problem of the person's ability to exercise the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the constitution and other legislative acts. Recently, in the world, cases of human rights violations in connection with religious, racial, linguistic and other differences have become more frequent and more frequent in the world. The ambiguity, the antagonistic nature of the definitions and the relation between the concepts of various social groups, such as the national, religious minority, etc., often leads to speculation and aggravation of the ethnopolitical situation. This explains the relevance of this study.
Geopolitical Ukrainian-Russian conflict: the reaction of Ukrainian churches
Authors: Gorkusha Oksana , Fylypovych Liudmyla O.
Published: November 2018

Modern Ukrainian society is stratified not only economically, socially, professionally, informally, territorially, politically, historically, but ideologically and experiencedly. Is there something that unites Ukraine today? E. This - the present as a set of cultural and civilization factors and reality as a set of fateful events. The number and intensity of the fateful events for Ukraine in the last 3 years - from November 22, 2013, that is, the first protest against the non-signing of the association with the EU - is abundant. It is not time to sum up, there is a permanent crisis, there is a war, we have a lot of losses, but we have already made our choice.
The influence of US church institutions on the Ukrainian religious situation.
Authors: Holʹd Olʹha
Published: November 2018

The religious influence of the United States on Ukraine is not so much written. But this topic constantly evokes interest in scientific circles. Historians and religious scholars study appearance of American religions on the territory of Ukraine, noting that these processes are time coincide with all-European events. In Ukraine, American religions came not directly, but through Holland, Poland, some other European countries. Trade in wealth, plants and other commodities has also become spread of religious ideas, which gives us one more thesis in favor of vitality consumerism. Ukraine felt the influence of the ideas of American federalism and freedom religions, which had an influence on Ukrainian thinkers, in particular T.Shevchenko, who, as is known, expected our Washington "to be a new and righteous law?"
The ideas of civil religion in the works of Mykola Kostomarov
Authors: Zinkevich Timofiy
Published: November 2018

T. Zinkevich. "The ideas of civil religion in the works of Mykola Kostomarov." The author based on the fact that a civil religion - it is a social and cultural phenomenon in which the light of a kind of religious language and the specific practices of the necessity of finding and approval of the national state, which has its roots in the community needs to find the sacred in the work, which is inherent in the transcendent, eternally linear in nature and which is rooted in the history of the territory. According to N. Kostomarov, the main provisions of national faith as follows: God is one, He is the creator of all things, the seat of comfort and happiness, belief in which is the key statements in the freedom society, equality, and fraternity; social ideals of Ukrainians, which is the expression of Christian Cossack republic and the social doctrine of the early, truthful Christianity coincide; Ukraine, in contrast to other ethnic groups, is a carrier and protector of the true social and Christian values, which makes it possible immortality Ukrainians, his primacy in  the social liberation and unification of the Slavic community, in which Ukraine will take place eludes Rzeczpospolita.
Merold Westphal’s existential theology as the development ideas of Soren Kierkegaard in age of Postmodern
Authors: Shevchenko Serhii
Published: November 2018

Serhii Shevchenko Merold Westphal’s existential theology as the development ideas of Soren Kierkegaard in age of Postmodern. The article reveals the problem of Merold Westphal’s understanding the specific of S. Kierkegaard’s religious existentialism. To analysed the basic statement of the books by M. Westphal «Becoming a Self: A Reading of Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript (1996). It was studied thoroughly the problem of explication of S. Kierkegaard’s ethical and religious ideas in the post-existential and postmodern context. To investigate the phenomenon of «religiousness “C”», introduced by M. Westphal’s in the modern existential phenomenology of religion.
Expert opinion on "The Charter of Muslims Of Ukraine"
Authors: Kolodnyi Anatolii M. , Sagan Oleksandr N.
Published: November 2018

Having considered the text of the "Charter of Muslims of Ukraine," the Department of Religious Studies firstly notes the positive fact of the emergence of a fundamentally new document that highlights the principles and approaches of the modern vision of the life of Muslim communities of Ukraine in a society with a dominant non-Muslim population. Moreover, unlike the famous "European Islamic Charter", which was adopted in 2008. (and caused a constructive discussion in the Muslim environment that ended with the signing of this document by more than 400 Muslim organizations), the "Charter of Muslims of Ukraine" is a document more concrete and less declarative, since it means the principles of the common life of Muslims, taking into account Ukrainian specifics.
The World Outlook function of religion and church identity: challenges in the contempopary coordinates of Ukrainian reality
Authors: Gorkusha Oksana
Published: November 2018

Oksana Horkusha’s article «The World Outlook function of religion and church identity: challenges in the contempopary coordinates of Ukrainian reality» analyzes the world outlook functioning of churches in the events of modern Ukraine. The rhetoric and the activity of church institutions are explored, on the basis of which the 3 levels of perception of reality are distinguished: 1) global 2) "Russko-mirovsky" (Russian-world) 3) Ukrainian. Given the characteristic of each of them.
Religious Identities in Ukraine: formulation of the problem
Authors: Fylypovych Liudmyla O.
Published: November 2018

The article by Liudmyla Fylypovych «Religious Identities in Ukraine: formulation of the problem» is devoted to the problem of religious identities, which were activated in modern Ukraine in connection with radical political and civilizational challenges-shifts, and therefore they require deep study.
Value challenges of the present: reflections about morally appropriate and religious faith
Authors: Horokholinska Iryna
Published: November 2018

The article by Iryna Horokholinska «Value challenges of the present: reflections about morally appropriate and religious faith» is aimed to the analysis of the moral and religious portrait of a modern person – in the conditions of globalization and secularization. Should we talk about the total secularization? Did the renaissance of religiosity really come to be? And what's important: what is the mission and strategy of the Church's actions in influencing the axiological self-determination of the modern person? As a Christian can be to a Christian, but not to be preserved in a culturally and mentally obsolete system of priorities for the regulation of personal life? These questions are precisely the markers in the search for the answer to the urgent question addressed to representatives of the Western (Christian?) Civilization - Quo Vadis?
Experience and prospects of religious organizations in Ukraine: prisma of independence
Authors: Tytarenko Vita
Published: November 2018

In the article by Vita Titarenko «Experience and prospects of religious organizations in Ukraine: prisma of independence» on the basis of the analysis of the newest sociological researches the features of the post-Soviet religious society in Ukraine are considered. The formation of a specific model of religiosity of modern Ukrainian society, its new value matrix is noted. The distinctive characteristic is the nonconfessional self-determination of Ukrainians, the development of extra-religious religiosity during complex socio-political events in the country, the formation of such a phenomenon as a civil religion and a civil "ecclesia".