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Evaluation of management of angle fracture of mandible by using different surgical approaches
Authors: Mahat Arun Kumar , Shrestha Merina , Chaudhary Bishwanath
Published: February 2020

Introduction: Mandible is frequently involved bone in facial fracture with angle fracture accounting for 27-30% of cases. Various methods and approaches have been tried for treatment of angle fracture.

Objective: To correlate the different surgical approaches with its outcome postoperatively

Methodology:  A hospital based descriptive observational study was conducted in 30 patients admitted in DentalInpatient Department (IPD), from October 2016 to April 2019. ASA Ipatients having  angle fracture of mandible either isolated or combined with other facial bones were included in the study. Different approaches were used for management of angle fracture of mandible. Patient characteristics were presented using frequency table and percentages.

Result: The mean operative duration was lesser in transbuccal approach (111.25 minutes) compared to transbuccal (lower border) approach (120 minutes) and intraoral (122.5 minutes) in case of isolated angle fracture. Ease of surgical access was good in transbuccal approach 7 patients (70%) compared to intraoral approach 6 patients (42.86%). Occlusal discrepancies were more in transbuccal approach (50%) compared to intraoral approach (21.43%). Scar was barely visible in 2 patients (14.29%) out of 14 patients wheretransbuccal incision was made.

Conclusion: We recommend intraoral surgical approach for favorable angle fracture. In unfavorable fractures we advise to place the first miniplate via intraoral approach, check for fracture stability intra-operatively and place second miniplate on lower bordervia transbuccal approach if unstable.
Evaluation of female pelvic mass - correlation of clinical and histopathological findings in female patients attending at Birat Medical College and Teaching Hospital, Morang, Nepal
Authors: Mishra Seema Kumari , Pradhan Roshan , Pokharel Hanoon P
Published: February 2020

Introduction: The female pelvis is a quite complex anatomical region consisting of uro-genital system as its main part and other structures like blood vessels, gastrointestinal tracts, lymphatics, nerves and a part of musculoskeletal system. Thus, the differential diagnosis of pelvic masses may be of gynecological or non gynecological origin. Gynecological pelvic masses are uterine, ovarian or adnexal masses which may be benign or malignant.

Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate the type of various gynecological pelvic masses and to correlate the preoperative diagnosis with histopathological diagnosis.

Methodology: This was a hospital based cross sectional study conducted on 107 patients from September 2018 to September 2019 at Birat Medical College and Teaching Hospital (BMCTH) with presenting complian of lump in the abdomen. These patients underwent clinical examination, routine and specific investigations along with ultrasonographic evaluation and tumour markers to reach a preoperative clinical diagnosis. Patients were admitted and preanesthetic consultation was done. Patients were taken for therapeutic or diagnostic laparoscopy or exploratory laparotomy and diagnosis were confirmed with histopathological diagnosis.

Results: Total 107 patients were enrolled in the study with age ranging from 21 to ≥70 years and among them majority (42.1%) were in the age group of 41-50 years. The most common presenting complain of patients were lower abdominopelvic pain (58.87%). The most common clinical diagnosis was leiomyoma in 39.25% patients followed by adenomyosis in 24.29% patients. The most common histopathological diagnosis was fibroid uterus seen in 42.05% patients. There were 2 (1.86%) patients of ovarian malignancies and 1 (0.93%) patient of uterine malignancy.
Clinical Profile and Prognostication in Patients Admitted at Medical Intensive Care Unit at B. P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences
Authors: Koirala Puru , Bhatta Narendra , Ghimire Ram Hari , Mishra Deebya Raj , Bidesh Bista Bidesh
Published: February 2020

Introduction: Critical Care management is an important issue in developing countries where Medical Intensive Care Units (MICU) patients have comorbidity or complications of multisystem involvement.

Objectives: The objective of study was to analyze clinical profiles of patients in Medical Intensive Care Unit and identify applicable factors that prognosticate outcomes.

Methodology: Study conducted at Medical Intensive Care Unit of B. P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal. Records from July 31, 2013 to August 1, 2014 were retrospectively studied. Clinical profiles were analyzed, outcomes defined as improved, referred, Leave Against Medical Advice (LAMA) or death. An online calculator (MD+Calc) was used to calculate Sequential Organ Failure Assessment Score (SOFA). Descriptive statistics were used, values <0.05 were statistically significant.

Results: Of 70 patients 36 (51.4%) were female, 30 (42.9%) had sepsis of which 12 (40%) had Community-Acquired Pneumonia. 8 (11.43%) had Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, 7 (10%) had congestive cardiac failure. 43 (61.43%) improved, 17 (24.3%) expired, 9 (12.86%) LAMA, one patient was referred. Sequential Organ Failure Assessment Score was >9 in 23 (41.07%) cases.  Of 17 expired cases, 14 (82.35%) had SOFA score >9.

Conclusion:  Sepsis with pulmonary involvement is primary diagnosis in patients requiring Medical Intensive Unit Care. Sequential Organ Failure Assessment Score was useful for prognostication and can be used for better clinical decision-making.
Comparison of effects of Bupivacaine and Ropivacaine in patients undergoing elective Caesarean section
Authors: Subba Sangeeta , Arjun Chhetri Arjun , Bhattarai Rupak
Published: February 2020

Introduction: Spinal anesthesia is considered a reasonable choice for cesarean section. Bupivacaine and ropivacaine have been used as intrathecal drugs alone or in combination with various opioids. Ropivacaine is considered a valid and safe alternative to bupivacaine for spinal anesthesia.

Objectives: To compare the efficacy and safety of hyperbaric ropivacaine with hyperbaric bupivacaine in spinal anesthesia for elective cesarean section.

Methodology: Sixty pregnant women undergoing elective cesarean section were allocated into two groups. Group R received 3 ml of 0.5% hyperbaric ropivacaine (2 ml 0.75% plain ropivacaine mixed with 1 ml of 25 %dextrose) and Group B received 2.5 ml of 0.5% hyperbaric bupivacaine. Both the groups were compared in terms of onset of sensory and motor block, regression of sensory and motor block, duration of analgesia and side effects.

Results: The onset of sensory block was comparable in both groups but was statistically insignificant. The onset of motor block in Bupivacaine(7.53 ± 1.72) min was faster when compared to Ropivacaine group(14.33 ± 6.19) min. Regression of sensory and motor block both were faster in Ropivacaine group. Duration of analgesia was longer in Bupivacaine group(131.17 ± 32.95)min than Ropivacaine group(125.33 ± 30.54)min.

Conclusion: Ropivacaine can be used as an alternative to Bupivacaine for spinal anesthesia in cesarean section but has a shorter duration of sensory and motor block.
Patterns of Coronary Dominance in Patients undergoing Coronary Angiography
Authors: Khatun Sanzida , Nepal Rajesh , Yadav Ranjeet Kumar
Published: February 2020

Introduction: Right and left coronary arteries supply the heart. The dominant vessel supplies posterior descending artery and at least one posterolateral branch to inferior surface of heart. The coronary circulation can be: right dominant, left dominant and co-dominant.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine the different patterns of coronary artery dominance in patients with coronary artery disease.

Methodology: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in patients undergoing coronary angiography in cathlab of Nobel Medical College and Teaching Hospital, Biratnagar, Nepal. The coronary angiography was taken from all standard views. For assessing the left dominance, left anterior oblique cranial view was specially focused.

Results: There were 72.9% right dominant, 22.2% left dominant and 4.9% co-dominant cases. Both sexes had similar patterns of coronary dominance (73.8% RD, 22.2% LD and 4.0% CD among males whereas, 71.4% RD, 22.1% LD and 6.5% CD among females) as that in total study population. The highest number of patients was found in 60 to 69 years of age group. More number of patients had left dominance in less than 50 years age group than in 50 years and above group. There were no significant differences in pattern of coronary dominance with age groups.

Conclusion: The most prevalent type of coronary artery dominance is right dominance followed by left dominance and co-dominance.
A unique case of development of central retinal vein occlusion in diabetic papillopathy
Authors: Kumari Archana , Lalit Agarwal Lalit , Agrawal Nisha , Aditya Kshitij , Joshi Ichhya , Pradhan Deepti
Published: February 2020

Diabetic papillopathy (DP) is a rare ocular complication of diabetes presenting as acute disc edema. It is characterized by minimal or no visual symptoms and has tendency to resolve spontaneously in most of the patients with no visual sequel. Visual debility, if present, is attributable to diabetic macular edema (DME), advanced diabetic retinopathy or conversion to ischemic optic neuropathy. We report a case of 33 years old female who presented with bilateral papillopathy with best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) of 6/6 in both eyes. She had associated severe non proliferative diabetic retinopathy but noDME. On follow up, thepatient had good metabolic control and clinical improvement in DP, but she developed sudden diminution of vision in left eye as a result of non ischemic central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO) which was characterized by BCVA of 6/36, dilated tortuous veins and DME. No specific cause of non-ischaemicCRVOwas revealed on detailed work up. Structural and functional improvement was seenon monthly intravitrealanti vascular endothelial growth factor(VEGF) administration.Her BCVA post threeinjectionstood at 6/18. This is to report the possibility of development of CRVO in DP and highlight the need for close follow-up of such patients even in presence of strict diabetic control.
Choriocarcinoma associated with ectopic pregnancy. A case report
Authors: Manandhar Tara , Upreti Rakchya , Sitaula Sarita
Published: February 2020

Choriocarcinoma is an uncommon malignant neoplasia and even rarer is the Choriocarcinoma associated with ectopic pregnancy. Here, we present a case of Choriocarcinoma in a young lady who had undergone laparoscopic salphingectomy for rupture ectopic pregnancy, and presenting after 2month in hemorrhagic shock requiring urgent laparotomy.
Researching Education as a Social Process
Authors: Gautam Suresh
Published: February 2020

Editorial
Perceived Influence of Students’ Demographic Variables on Their Access to Financial Aids in Public Universities in Rivers State, Nigeria
Authors: Eseyin Emmanuel Olorunleke
Published: February 2020

The paper investigated the perceived influence of students’ demographic variables on their access to financial aids in public Universities in Rivers State, Nigeria. Six questions were formulated to guide the study and five hypotheses tested at 0.05 level of significance. The design adopted for the study was an analytical survey. The population of the study included 78, 216 students (34,997 male and 43,219 female) in the three public Universities in Rivers State. The sample of the study covered 791 students (Male= 395 and Female= 396) selected through the random sampling technique while Taro Yamane method of sample size determination was used for determining the sample size. The instruments used for collecting responses from students were questionnaire and a ten items interview schedule. The research questions were answered using frequency, percentage and cumulative percentage. Findings of the study revealed that students’ demographic variables have an influence on their access to financial aids in public Universities in Rivers State, Nigeria. The implication of this is that the government’s expenditure on education will continue to increase in the absence of these alternative financial aids in the public Universities in Rivers State, Nigeria.
Impact and Challenges of Centres for Education and Community Action in Cameroon’s North West Region
Authors: Amungwa Fonteh Athanasius
Published: February 2020

This paper examines the impact of community education and challenges facing Centres for Education and Community Action as a rural development strategy in Cameroon. The study was conducted in the North-West Region of Cameroon, employing field observations, semi-structured interviews with key informants using a convenient sampling technique and through elaborate review of documents. These research instruments were blended into what is termed triangulation and the data collected was analysed descriptively. The main focus of qualitative analysis is to understand the ways in which people act and the accounts that people give for their actions. This paper posits that extreme dependence on the provision of Western formal education cannot solve the problems of a rapidly changing society like Cameroon, which is facing a long-term economic crisis and persistent unemployment issues of graduates. Consequently, education should be redefined in the context of the prevailing economic crisis to make it responsive to the aspirations of rural communities. Findings showed that community education had contributed towards rural development immensely but has suffered many challenges due to neglect of the field in the policy agenda. This paper recommends the integration of community education with formal education to facilitate group and community betterment in particular and rural transformation in general.
Contribution of Financial Literacy on Behaviour: A Nepali Perspective
Authors: Chaulagain Ramesh Prasad
Published: February 2020

Financial literacy and behaviour are emerging personal financial agendas both in education and finance. However, financial literacy has behavioural implication and effect on the financial well-being of individuals. Therefore, assessing financial behaviour by measuring financial literacy of individuals is important research attention. In this paper, the contribution of financial literacy on the financial behaviour of small borrowers is measured and analysed. The study follows a quantitative research methodology under the post-positivistic research paradigm. A simple scoring method is used to measure financial literacy and the logistic regression model is used to measure the probabilistic contribution of financial literacy on behaviour. By using a sample survey, the study collects 393 sets of responses from small borrowers selected randomly from four districts of Nepal. Theory of planned behaviour is used to interpret the finding. The theory of planned behaviour states that the literacy i.e. knowledge and skill in financial matters will develop an attitude, and if the attitude is positive, the persons will behave accordingly. The finding explores that improved level of financial literacy contributes financial behaviour of the small borrowers positively. The study concludes that for enhancing financial behaviour, contemporary and contextual financial literacy programs are necessary to educate the individuals. The study also connects financial well-beings with enhanced financial behaviour. Findings of this study are useful for policymakers, financial service users, academicians and financial service providers in Nepal.
Deploying Creative Thinking to Strengthen Entrepreneurial Capability Among University Students in Nigeria
Authors: Aboluwodi Akinjide
Published: February 2020

Most of the students studying entrepreneurship in Nigerian universities lack entrepreneurial capability- that is, they lack the freedom to pursue and achieve entrepreneurial opportunity. Freedom is seen here in terms of those conditions that must be in place for students to be able to carry out their entrepreneurship studies. These are conditions that support the well-being of the students and may be seen as having good shelter, being well nourished, being healthy, being able to do their normal studies among others. The paper examined why the presence of these conditions is likely to assist students to improve their creative thinking and strengthen their entrepreneurial capability. It explored Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach, focusing on freedom, opportunities, and functionings to explain the required favourable conditions that make learning worthwhile for students, and how it accounts for students’ ability to strengthen their entrepreneurial capability. The paper argued for the deployment of creative thinking to strengthen entrepreneurial capability among students of entrepreneurship in universities in Nigeria. It concluded by urging universities in Nigeria to adopt relevant curriculum in addition to providing students with a decent learning environment to enable them to develop creative thinking that could be used in entrepreneurship education.
How differing conceptions of integrity and self-integration influence relationships: Implications for management, personal and professional development
Authors: Akrivou Kleio , Scalzo German , Orón José Víctor
Published: February 2020

As human beings we need to relate to others; the exercise of our professional roles demands it. Relationships, however, bring about challenges to the self that require us to act with integrity. Different approaches to integrity configure different ways of cognitively and intuitively feeling and acting in our relationships. Moreover, different ways of understanding human development are related to different ways of understanding integrity in the self. While not an exhaustive account, we sketch out three models of human development that capture much of this diversity, the so-called autonomous self (AS), processual self (PS) and inter-processual self (IPS). Each has a particular way of defining integrity in the self and understanding action. The AS and PS models understand integrity as internal coherence thanks primarily to rational exercise, with priority given to the content of action, while relations are seen as resources. AS and PS focus on cognition through rational or emotional and external mastery of our relationships and our relationship to our own integrity (self-integrity is also handled as a cognitive exercise mirroring how external relations are understood). The IPS understands integrity as the dynamic to growth and cognition itself as a relational act that, when it arises from within, affects all dimensions of the person and hence how to ethically relate to others and ourselves. Different kinds of integrity are also related to practical wisdom. Based on this, we explore consequences of these different ways of understanding self-integration and relationships for approaching management and leadership roles to open up reflection in the field of management on leadership, relational integrity and personal development.
ST-Segment– Elevation Myocardial Infarction for Pharmacoinvasive Strategy or Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Gaza (STEPP- PCI)
Authors: Hasirah Mohammed , Habib Mohammed
Published: February 2020

Background A primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) Primary PCI continues to be the optimal reperfusion therapy in patients with ST elevation myocardial infarction however, in areas where PCI centers are not readily available, a pharmacoinvasive strategy has been proposed. This study investigated the safety and efficacy of a pharmacoinvasive strategy compared with primary (PCI) strategy for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) in Gaza. Methods: We randomized 145 patients presenting within 2 hours of symptom onset of acute ST elevation myocardial infarction to primary CPI (PCI) or for pharmaco-invasive PCI 2-24 hours after streptokinase, except in the event of failed reperfusion, in which case, emergency angiography was recommended. The primary endpoint a composite of death, shock and congestive heart failure at 30 days. Results: Total 145 patients with mean age 56.5+10.48 years. (The mean age of patients is) The primary endpoint in primary PCI (17%) and in pharmaco-invasive PCI (16.1%) p = 0.24.???? There was no difference in 30-day mortality (4.7 % in primary PCI and 4.9% in pharmacoinvasive strategy (P=0.94). Secondary endpoints:Emergency angiography was required in 39.5% of the patients in the pharmaco-invasive strategy and the median time for underwent angiography was 6 hours after randomization. TIMI major bleeding occurred among 4 patients ( 4.9 % ) in the pharmacoinvasive group and in 2 patients (3.1%) of the primary PCI group (P = 0.59).The pharmacoinvasive group had 1.9 times the odds of having TIMI major bleed compared with the primary PCI group Conclusions In this randomized trial, early-presenting STEMI patients unable to undergo primary PCI within 1 hour (median, 75±20 minutes) were randomized to primary PCI or a pharmaco-invasive strategy with streptokinase followed by PCI. At 1 month follow-up, there was no statistical difference in all-cause mortality, heart failure or shock. This study suggests that, if primary PCI cannot be performed within 1 hour of presentation, a pharmaco-invasive strategy may be as good as primary PCI.
Productivity in the Emerging Asian Economies
Authors: Saeed Asma , Haq Zahoor Ul , Iqbal Javed
Published: February 2020

Total factor productivity (TFP) has played a vital role in fostering the growth of the agriculture and manufacturing sectors of emerging Asian economies. However, few attempts have been made to unveil this link. The core objective of our paper is to evaluate TFP growth via two different approaches (1) growth accounting framework and (2) Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) for emerging Asian economies, namely, China, Pakistan, India, Indonesia, South Korea, and Japan. Results obtained from both approaches revealed that on average productivity performance increased for the sample countries over the study period. Furthermore, DEA results indicated that increase in agriculture and manufacturing sector’s productivity is largely attributable to the technological advancement in these countries while the role of technical efficiency change is not encouraging. Policymakers need to frame appropriate policies achieving higher TFP growth both through technological innovation and efficiency improvements in order to attain sustainable economic growth.
Volatility of Regional Sharia Compliance Returns and US News Impact
Authors: Hamid Kashif , Akash Rana Shahid Imdad , Ghafoor Muhammad Mudasar
Published: February 2020

Investigation of the impact of US News proxy on the returns of regional sharia compliance indices and volatility is the primary aim of this study. The daily data of Dow Jones Islamic index (DJII), Jakarata Islamic Index (JKII), Karachi Meezan Islamic Index (KMI) and Standard & Poor 500 stock index has been taken for the period of July 01, 2013 to June 30, 2018. GARCH (1,1) is extended with US News proxy for KMI, DJII and JKII. US news proxy identifies that leverage effect reveal the long run persistency in volatility. EGARCH (1,1) model indicates that higher volatility has bee also increased by bad news than good news due to leverage effect in sharia compliance returns. This study leads to extend various assets pricing models by modeling the volatility and will also inform the international and regional investors about the new trends of investment in Islamic stock indices and portfolio diversification.
Socio-Cultural Determinants of Child Marriages and Teenage Pregnancies among Adolescent Girls and Young Women: A Case Study of District Sanghar and Karachi
Authors: Haider Syed Imran , Bangash Arshad Khan , Ali Muhammad
Published: February 2020

Child marriages and early age pregnancy are an alarming issue among adolescent girls and young females in South Asian region. This research was carried out to understand the knowledge, attitude, and practices towards child marriages and early age pregnancies. For this purpose an exploratory research design was employed and data was gathered through using qualitative and quantitative research techniques. The research found that the respondents were lacking authentic knowledge about sexual and reproductive health rights. Most of the respondents were having access to public and private health service providers and this channel can be a source for the quality information about sexual and reproduce health and rights. An integrated approach through combing all the channels and stakeholders of the society can be vital for the desired social change to counter child marriages and early age pregnancies.
Anthropometric and Physical Fitness of the Under-16 Regional-School Cricket Players, of Bahawalpur, Pakistan
Authors: Nazeer Muhammad Tahir , Zia Ul Haq Muhammad , Habib Muhammad Badar
Published: February 2020

The aim of this study was to analysis the anthropometry and fitness of the under-16 regional and school cricket players. Twenty participants were selected from the Bahawalpur regional cricket team and (n = 20) from school teams. Selected variables were height, weight, skinfolds, girths, bone lengths, breadths, 30-m race, set-ups, hand grip strength, flexibility, standing broad jump, and agility. the anthropometric and physical fitness of regional and school cricket players was compared by applying Independent t-test. The results disclosed that the regional cricket players were significantly higher in arm span, arm length, and leg lengths, shoulder, elbow and knee breadths. The regional cricketers were faster in 30 m sprints, hand grip strength, setups, flexibility, and standing broad jump than school players. It was concluded the under-16 regional players were superior in anthropometric and physical fitness because they were selected from the larger population and regular in training program than school cricketers.
Child Rights Situation in Pakistan
Authors: Ahmad Manzoor , Zubair Muhammad , Rizwan Muhammad
Published: February 2020

The research regarding Child rights in Pakistan has immense magnitude for the socio-economic development in Pakistan. Resembling the majority of the worlds developing countries, Pakistan is also facing numerous social and economic problems. The weaker economic condition of the society resulted in an environment of uneven social conditions and class discrimination which becomes a huge hurdle in the way of attainment of a prosperous society. However, the most vulnerable element of society which is mainly affected by the worse social or economic condition is children. Approximately thirty-five % of the countrys populace is age 15 or lower from which about twenty-five millions are out of schools and 12 million are employed in labor work. The objective of this study is to analyze the situation in which the majority of the Pakistani children are facing numerous challenges in getting access to basic rights including healthcare, education and protection from abuse etc
Ascend and Descend of the British in the Malakand Zone and the Role of the Napoleon of the Pathans: A Historical Study
Authors: Khan Abdul Zahoor , Khurshaid  , Bilal Muhammad
Published: February 2020

The Siege of Malakand was the July 26 to August 2, 1897 siege of the British garrison in the Malakand region of colonial British Indias NWFP. The unrest caused by this division of the Pashtun lands led to the rise of Saidullah, a Pashtun Fakir who led an army of at least 10,000 against the British garrison in Malakand. Although the British forces were divided among a number of poorly defended positions, the small garrison at the camp of Malakand South and the small fort at Chakdara were both able to hold out for six days against the much larger Pashtun army. The Napoleon of Pathans- Khan Umara Khan of Janduls role will be put under discussion which is considered as a hub of the discussion held in this article.
Effect of Combined Teaching Strategies on Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) of Biology Students
Authors: Mehmood Nasir , Anwer Muhammad , Tatlah Ahmed
Published: February 2020

In this age of globalization, learning priorities of the learners have been under dramatic changes and teachers have to develop combination of such strategies which can engage the learners of the 21st century. The objectives of this study were to examine the effect of combined teaching strategies on low and high achievers higher order thinking skills in biology at secondary level, conducted in a public school of Punjab province. The researcher used the combined teaching strategies which comprised of KWLH charts, hands on activities, multimedia integration and cooperative learning to cover the contents from 10th grade text book of Biology, for a period of 8 weeks. In this experimental research posttest only, design was adopted. The HOTS of biology students were assessed through 50 multiple choice items. After the intervention, experimental group exhibited promotion in HOTS of the biology students as compared to their counterparts. The results of t-test showed that these combined teaching strategies not only promote the HOTS of high achievers but were effective for the low achievers as well.
A Historical Review of Governance in Pakistan (1947-2012)
Authors: Ahmad Sajjad , Akbar Muqarrab
Published: February 2020

The present study attempts to make an understanding of the concept of governance and evaluation of its micromacro level of application on governance in Pakistan by using the model of McCawley theory 2005. In this article overall performance of governance regimes in the history of the country with the major focus on the administrative-economic results of their policies and decisions have been highlighted. Pakistans political stability, social development and industrial growth have always been victimized by its interest groups and elites. Pakistans weak political leaders always created a gap between civil and military bureaucracy and caused military regimes to rule the state. Today the countrys development is partial. The literacy rate is going better and active media have come up. Civil society has become assertive. The middle class is flourishing and Pakistanis are having the desire to have peace in the country.
New religious trends in the Ukrainian society
Authors: Fylypovych Liudmyla O.
Published: February 2020

The end of the twentieth century in the religious life of the Ukrainian people was marked by dramatic changes: the network of religious organizations increased rapidly, the number of believers increased, the Church from the persecuted and followed authority of the institution turned into an active element of society, beginning to seek a common understanding with the state. The national uplift has coincided with the complex transformational processes associated with the globalization of the world economy, finance, natural and labor resources, population migration, culture, the spiritual sphere. All this is extremely relevant to the problem of self-identification of Ukraine as a state and every single Ukrainian as its citizen in different coordinates, especially spiritual ones.
Afterword. Ukraine in the world religious space
Authors: Fylypovych Liudmyla O.
Published: February 2020

It has been 17 years since Ukraine has been in the world religious space, but it is hardly aware of its presence there, and the world community does not notice that this space has been enriched by another country and spiritual tradition.

Thanks to Ukraine, the world religious space has increased territorially by 603.7 thousand km², which is 5.7% of European and 0.44% of world land area. This geographical area is inhabited by nearly 50 million, of which more than 30 million are believers. Ukraine, accounting for 0.7% of the population (46 million of 6.6 billion), has respectively 0.5% of believers in the world's total population.

Such territorial and human quantitative growth is not too noticeable for the world. But this territory and human resources have long been present in the history of mankind. The spiritual weight of the Ukrainian religious experience requires verbalization both for the Ukrainians themselves and for other peoples who inhabit a certain local and global religious space.
Addition. Religious Network of Ukraine
Authors: Of the Journal Editorial board
Published: February 2020

Addition. Religious Network of Ukraine
Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue as a Problem of Cultural Globalization
Authors: Yuldasheva M.
Published: February 2020

Today, analyzing the future of mankind, we are increasingly discussing the topic of globalization. Increasing attention is being paid to its socio-cultural and spiritual-cultural dimension. In many works devoted to this issue, the problem of the essence of cultural globalization, on the mechanism of combining ideas, views, and value orientations of different orientations is actualized.
State of Nemra: The Context of Religious, Non-Religious and Mystical Thinking
Authors: Murashkin Mykhailo G.
Published: February 2020

The statement of the problem is to start before I become rooted in HEMRI, as a special person I become, de facto sprint for an hour and space, to relax in the light of the eye. Analysis of the remaining costs to drive the problem of transmission and the ability to see will become NEMRI in the context of the forms of suspension. That is to say, form and state - to look at NEMRI in the context of a reliant, unrelated and mystic ministry.
Archaic representations of ancient Slavs about the place, role and main stages of human existence in the structure of the ancestral universe
Authors: Kozlov M.M.
Published: February 2020

It is almost impossible to fully understand the spirituality of the Ukrainian people, their mental features without a detailed study of the pagan - the basis of the consciousness of our ancestors, in particular archaic ideas about the infinite existence in the sacred tribal community. The belief in eternity, the infinity of human being, in the sacred connection between dead ancestors and living descendants has existed in our ancestors for millennia and arose long before the "birth" of pagan gods. It is no coincidence that, several centuries after the introduction of Christianity, national scribes became confused in the names of several former pagan Eastern Slavic deities. The pagan beliefs and ordinances associated with the worship of the dead ancestors: - Births and births, carnations and ghouls - were preserved in the national environment until almost the sixteenth century.
Ontological security of personality as a subject of sociology of religion
Authors: Durmanenko O.O.
Published: February 2020

Modern socio-human sciences, under the influence of transformational processes, rethinking established concepts, turn to problems that were previously in the "shadow" of the actual. One such object of study is the ontological security of a person, who is studied by various sciences. The question of personality security can not be overlooked by the sociology of religion, since religion, as a socio-spiritual phenomenon, is directly woven into the mechanisms of formation of a particular state of personality.
Elements of Zelotism in the Character of the Public Activity of Jesus of Nazareth
Authors: Pavlenko Pavlo Yuriyovych
Published: February 2020

If Phariseeism in most of its followers had somehow assumed the coexistence of Jews within the pagan world, implied some compromise on relations with colonial Rome, then zealotism in this matter was categorical. His main motto can be summarized in the following thesis: Israel under Yahweh's rule or death. The Zealots considered any reconciliation with the Gentiles the gravest sin, recognizing the true ruler and ruler of Israel as only one Most High. Thus, Zelotism, coming out of Phariseeism, differed from the latter not so much by political views as by the means of realizing these views. The idea of ​​political freedom and independence of Judea, the ethnocultural purity of the Zealots was the cornerstone of their religious and political doctrine.
Features of Philosophical-Theological Dialogue as Factors of the Social Position of Ukrainian Evangelical Protestantism
Authors: Cherenkov Mychailo M.
Published: February 2020

"Social theology" and "theology of culture" become relevant discourses of evangelical Protestantism, within which the new identity of the church in a postmodern society is being produced. Similar socio-theological and cultural-theological identity is a problem for conservative evangelical churches, which form the majority in Ukrainian evangelical Protestantism.
The Political and Legal Aspect of the Relations between the Autocracy and the Adventists in the Context of the General Protestant Movement in the Second Half of the Nineteenth and First Years of the Twentieth Centuries
Authors: Sitarchuk Roman Anatoliyovych
Published: February 2020

The topic of the study is a component of modern scientific exploration that examines the role of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in building our multi-denominational society. In particular, the issue of determining the place and role of the Adventist Church in society and the state is important. However, today it is possible to unleash it only by summing up the accumulated experience in this field for the whole period of the history of Adventism in Ukraine. The problem of state-confessional relations is important, but it has not been given sufficient importance in terms of theoretical research, which sometimes leads to gross errors in the construction of these relations, which is not beneficial to society. Thus, it is interesting for us to experience the emergence of relations between the state and the Adventist faith in the Ukrainian lands that were part of the Russian Empire, since that is when the formation of the Adventist Church in the domestic territories began.
The practice of elections and the ordination of the highest clergy in medieval Iceland
Authors: Kravchenko I.O.
Published: February 2020

The position of bishop in medieval Europe was important not only religiously but also politically and culturally. Top clergy often performed secular authority in their city and diocese. European canonical practice of the early Middle Ages developed a system where election and consecration into the bishopric became an integral and decisive element of ministry. Spiritual service was thus considered elective and sacred. In the 60s of the XII century. the already mature concept of confirmatio indicated that the powers of each bishop-elect begin in his consecration.
Features of the formation of the Celtic version of Christianity in Ireland in the V - at the beginning of VI century
Authors: Buchovskyi V.R.
Published: February 2020

Throughout Christianity, its activities are in one way or another connected to the historical reality of its time. Usually, for different epochs, the strength of these bonds was different, but during the Middle Ages, they were significantly stronger than before and after. It is here that perhaps the most important moment was the rise of Christianity, which spread over a relatively short period of time almost throughout Europe. It was then - and never again in all its history - that the Church was able to participate in the formation of all aspects of its contemporary life (including the social), in accordance with its spirit. When solving this task, it inevitably came in close contact with the "world" and the various forms in which it was represented (ie with culture, state, etc.).
Fascio of the Compromise of the Roman and Greek Catholic Churches with the Bolshevik Authorities
Authors: Stockiy Yaroslav V.
Published: February 2020

The problem of relations between the Apostolic Capital and the Soviet state in the interwar period and the interstate Bolshevik authorities and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in 1944-1945 has been widely and comprehensively covered in Ukrainian and foreign historiography. The author, in order to reproduce the two vectors of one problem in a holistic way, synthesized them into a single complex, setting up specific aspects: state – Church – relations. And when, in the 1920s and 1930s, the Soviet authorities carried out a brutal struggle against religion (destroying clergy, monasticism, destroying temples and monasteries, removing religious communities from registration), it is natural that the Apostolic See opposed this lawlessness.
The Beginnings of the Opposition Movement in the Environment of Evangelical Baptist Christians during the 1950s
Authors: Lahno O.P.
Published: February 2020

During the Soviet-German war, the Soviet upper party leadership of the USSR decided to unify state religious policy, leading the movement to unite various Protestant organizations into a single governing spiritual center of the six churches. The secular atheist power sought to fully subdue all religious movements in the USSR in order to establish full control over the believing population of the Soviet Union and the spiritual sphere of life of Soviet citizens. Not all believers liked this prospect, and they tried to resist this "unbelievers" pressure.
Youth organization "Plast" in the context of problems of application of Christian aspects in the process of activity of youth societies
Authors: Tuyeshyn O.M.
Published: February 2020

Today in Ukraine there is an acute problem of the spiritual alienation of a certain part of the younger generation from their people, their faith and traditions, which have developed over the centuries, from established moral principles, in particular, regarding personal self-determination in the social world. In turn, such confusion and disorientation in the social space leads to an aggravation of the relationship between the same outside world and the system of inner values ​​of the young man. Moreover, a hypertrophied and distorted understanding of reality entails a number of problems that often take the form of a pronounced social evil. For example, today our country is one of the leading places in Europe for the spread of AIDS. According to the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, every week, several dozen Ukrainians turn out to be HIV-positive when submitting appropriate tests. It is also hard to say about the spread of such social ills as drug addiction, drunkenness (striking the number of young people being treated today for alcohol abuse in drug dispensaries, and not caused by drinking alcohol, but by the widely publicized beer).
Features of education and upbringing of Protestants of Volyn province in the first half of the nineteenth century
Authors: Boyko B.Ye.
Published: February 2020

The relevance of the topic is primarily due to the fact that in recent years the Protestant churches of Ukraine have increasingly been directing activities towards raising the educational level of their pastors and believers. The proportion of Protestants among university students who receive state diplomas in various specialties is noticeably increasing. Obviously, the emergence of such a tendency is not coincidental and is connected with the desire of Protestant organizations to increase their influence in order to achieve a more successful policy of proselytism.
Instead of Review (Leonti's Charismatic Doctrine and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate)
Authors: Shuhayeva Liudmyla M.
Published: February 2020

In our scientific reconnaissance we have repeatedly turned to the analysis of social and spiritual origins, features of the doctrine of religious association of the charismatic orientation of the Orthodox origin of the Leontians, the personality of Leontius, the activities of his followers. Again, the small work of the Archpriest of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, Vasily Ostapchuk, entitled "The Life and Activity of Father Leonti", published in 500 in Rivne in 2006, forced us to turn to the figure of Leonti, his teachings and activities.
"Gender" views of Stanislav Orikhovsky (Ukrainian thinker of the first half of the 16th century)
Authors: Lytvynov V.D. , Mnozhynska R.
Published: February 2020

Gender is known to be a term used to define the sociocultural form of the existence of gender: man and woman act not as natural definitions but as sociocultural phenomena. If gender is determined on the basis of physical, organic and psychophysiological characteristics, then, unlike it, gender is derived from the social, cultural and historical features of human being. Human behavior in society and how it is perceived in it and defines gender as a social gender. Gender is thus one of the ways of social stratification of a society that, in combination with such socio-demographic factors as race, nationality, class, age, organizes the system of social hierarchy. Because gender is not a natural thing but a social construct, it implies self-awareness and self-determination. Gender has always been and remains a meaningful term. In the social sciences, "gender" has become more narrowly defined, denoting "social gender", that is, socially determined roles, identities and spheres of activity of men and women, which depend not on biological sexual differences, but on the social organization of society. Central to gender studies is the problem of social inequality between men and women.
Foreign Studies of the Anthropology of Maxim the Confessor
Authors: Chornomorets Yu.P.
Published: February 2020

Maxim the Confessor (580–662) is an outstanding thinker, continuer of the tradition of the last ancient Neo-Platonists, author of the Byzantine philosophical and theological synthesis, which became the subject of special researches in the works of eminent domestic and foreign scholars. The study of Maxim's creative heritage has undergone a certain evolution in science. From the beginning (in the 1850s) of the scientific study of the legacy of this eminent thinker and until the mid-1960s, the efforts of scholars were aimed at reconstructing Maxim's theological system. From 1965 to the beginning of the 1980s the stage of interest in the anthropology of Maxim continued. At the same time, since 1960, the ground has been prepared for the latest stage in the research of Maxim's work, namely the study of his works as a monument to the last stage of the development of the philosophy of ancient Neo-Platonists. In this article, we aim to carry out a historical and philosophical analysis of foreign studies of the work of Maxim the Confessor of the second stage of scientific study (1965–84).
Petro Mohyla's story "about the wonderful old man Grigory Mezhigirsky": representation of the dominant religious philosophy of the Ukrainian Middle Ages and Baroque
Authors: Yamchuk P.M.
Published: February 2020

The desire to see a sign phenomenon in different ways always has a reason to interpret it in an unbiased, panoramic way, and in some places - even allowing for contradictions in its understanding by different participants in the interpretative process. For modern humanities, this disposition is quite understandable, since it follows from its very postmodern nature, thereby defining the semantic semantic fields of the leading humanities. True, it is not so wide-spread, but instead, it is evident that Ukrainian religious thinkers of the Middle Ages and Baroque have interpreted the iconic phenomena more deeply. In the story of Petro Mohyla "On the Wonderful Elder Grigory Mezhyhirsky" the metropolitan Mohyla clearly expresses the need to build before the thinking gaze of the reader his own, immanently religious-philosophical conception of the Divine, which every time would present him not just as an act of manifestation, otherwise he appears before the person, while remaining alone. The contemporary study of this issue in order to integrate its leading concepts in the religious-philosophical and general cultural discourse of the postmodern era has largely determined the relevance of the proposed article. The study of the phenomenon of "leaving" by itself in changing forms of the phenomenon of the Divine is also one of the key ones in the proposed studio, because it expresses the very meaning of the Divine as a religious, and therefore a cultural phenomenon.
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Authors: Of the Journal Editorial board
Published: February 2020

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Authors: Of the Journal Editorial board
Published: February 2020

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