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{"title":"EVOLUTION OF THE IDEA OF NATIONAL SELF-DETERMINATION IN SOCIOPOLITICAL THOUGHT OF LATIN AMERICA","authors":"O. Tkach","doi":"10.17721/sophia.2019.14.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17721/sophia.2019.14.11","url":null,"abstract":"In the article management problems are examined part of concept – political and economic management – in the authoritarian modes. An author analyses authoritarian strategies of economic and political management within the framework of the right and left modes. The sources of authoritarian model of economic management are shown. The legislation is supposed to provide privileges to foreign investors: firstly, additional privileges granted at the initial stage of the investment process for any region of the country and type of economic activity, including the return of deductible VAT and / or accelerated depreciation of fixed assets and infrastructure; zero import tariff for import of means of production into the country, which is an integral part of the investment project. Favorable conditions for investing in the development of priority sectors such as mining, automotive, software, biotechnology, forestry, tourism production. Favorable conditions for investing in the provincial economy, including dismissal from local offices, state support for projects, promotion and financing of provincial property, and the provision of public services for preferential prices. The development and implementation of investment policy in Argentina is carried out by the Ministry of Planning, Public Investment and Services, established, when N. Kirchner became President of the country. Researchers managers consider that the political elite does not fully use the new benefits that Brazilian economy through its participation in regional integration. A Brazilian researcher states that Brazil should act as an initiator of deepening integration, coordinating the activities of Brazilian corporations in various sectors of the national economy. In particular, the state itself can, as researchers believe, initiate the restructuring of infrastructure, which in the long run can lead to economic growth. On the other hand, the state should stimulate the development of the Brazilian industry by taking advantage of the integration benefits. Researchers find that \"middle and upper class are trying to survive through the mechanisms they are used to, and the poor and the police are still killed as cockroaches under the current of insecticide\". Аccording to Brazilian neoliberal in the fact that opinion leaders, the de facto leader of criminal clans, can conquer the state apparatus. State taking economically and solutions are corruption because the same state participation in the economy leads.","PeriodicalId":196975,"journal":{"name":"Sophia. Human and Religious Studies Bulletin","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117060360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"ECOLOGICAL CONSCIOUSNESS AS THE BASIS FOR PERSON'S ECOLOGICAL CULTURE","authors":"Leonid Vyghovsjkyj, Tetjana Vyghovsjka","doi":"10.17721/sophia.2019.14.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17721/sophia.2019.14.8","url":null,"abstract":"The article shows that in the conditions of global ecological crisis Homo sapiens as a species can only survive if the problem of restoring historically lost balance of relations in the general system of \"human being – natural environment\" is resolved as soon as possible. We argue that such a process requires, first and foremost, an appropriate reorientation of the humanity's worldview with respect to the nature and formation of environmental consciousness in members of the human community based on such principles. It is proved that in the system of ecological consciousness the worldview plays a systematic role, because it gives a person the answer to the question about the main values and priorities in human life, provides appropriate ideological justification of thoughts and actions that meet the ecological needs of people and communities. It is emphasized that, in such a situation, the preservation and restoration of the environment, which forms the need for ecological activity, becomes a sense of human life. The role of historical types of worldview (mythological, religious, scientific) in shaping the attitude of a person to nature is shown. We also show that the characteristics of the main levels of formation of the person's ecological consciousness is, at the same time, the characteristics of their ecological maturity. This is due to the fact that the typological groups reflect the degree of perception of environmental ideas and the adoption of environmental principles with subsequent implementation in environmental activities. We show that the levels of environmental consciousness can be classified as naive-realistic, everyday-empirical, and conscious-theoretical. The naive-realistic level of maturity of environmental consciousness is characteristic of people who act as natural environmentalists in their lives. The everyday-empirical level is characterized by the existence (in the rational and emotional areas) of a negative attitude to environmental problems. The conscioustheoretical level of such consciousness is characterized by informed and active attitude to environmental problems. It is emphasized that in the process of forming an ecological worldview, there is a need to move from the dominance of the environmental paradigm to the dominance of the ideological, moral and ethical paradigms.","PeriodicalId":196975,"journal":{"name":"Sophia. Human and Religious Studies Bulletin","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115258286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"CULTURE FORMATIVE POTENTIAL OF THE ORTHODOX ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE CONTEMPORARY GREEK THEOLOGIAN CHRYSOSTOMOS STAMOULIS","authors":"Tetjana Ghavryljuk","doi":"10.17721/sophia.2019.14.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17721/sophia.2019.14.2","url":null,"abstract":"The study aims to determine the latest understanding of the place and role of culture in Christian anthropology. The author proceeds from the lack of translation of the works of Chrysostomos Stamulis and the absence among Ukrainian religious scholars and theologians of ideas about the range of transformations of the fundamental ideas of Orthodox theology in modern Greek theological thought. Scientific novelty lies in defining the place and role of culture within the transformations of contemporary Greek Orthodox anthropology. The newest approach to understanding of culture as an expression of the divine in man provides the Orthodox anthropology with new vectors of development. The study indicates that the Orthodoxy continues to play significant role in formation of the Greek nation. Within this context, the dialogue with culture initiated by Chrysostomos Stamulis becomes an important factor of this formation and search for identity. Culture, in all forms of its expression, appears not only as a form of spiritual secular being, but also as the deep essence of man, one of the aspects of the image and the likeness to the God, that encourages man to go beyond the boundaries of everyday routine, and with the ability to admire Beauty, to reach the state of Love. The theologian is trying to demonstrate that presence of Christ in man cannot be measured only by man's presence at the liturgy or involvement in the life of the church, but that extent of man's freedom is also an important factor. Man is not an angel whose mission is solely to perform the will of the God. Man is the image and the likeness of the God, man is graced with mind, freedom, creativity and love. With them, man is the creator of our world, through culture, art and science, as well as through multiple social and personal relationships. Chrysostomos Stamulis unveils significant culture formative potential of the Orthodox anthropology, in which is formed the kind of man who is able to see good, beauty, love of the world created by the God, and through herself she affirms them in the outside world boldly starting a dialogue with it. And both culture and art play important role in this dialogue.","PeriodicalId":196975,"journal":{"name":"Sophia. Human and Religious Studies Bulletin","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130707269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"THE PHENOMENON OF NEO-DETERMINISM AND ITS COMPREHENSION IN MODERN CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY","authors":"Ighor Ghudyma","doi":"10.17721/sophia.2019.14.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17721/sophia.2019.14.3","url":null,"abstract":"The author's research attention is focused on modern science-historical interpretations of the phenomenon of neo-determinism. The author also turned his attention to attempts at a theological interpretation of such ideas through the provisions of a religious worldview. The main objective of this article is to study an updated understanding of the fundamental principle of science – the principle of causality. In addition, the author studied the features of the manifestation of the causality principle in scientific and humanitarian projections. The author's special attention is also focused on the study of the specifics of reflection in the modern religious consciousness of the ideas of divine causality. In addition, the author focused on certain manifestations of the immanence of divine being. The author was particularly interested in the specific components of religious teaching. These are the positions in which theologians try to imagine the point of concentration of God's efforts when God carries out his will and providence. It is on the question of divine immanence that the efforts of even the most inquiring mind are broken up into obstacles caused by faith itself. The limit of that area into which the mind cannot intervene is an attempt to touch the divine causality. The question of finding access points through which God changes the natural world in acts of wonderworking also remains incomprehensible.\u0000The topic of the article, the choice and application of its theoretical and methodological approaches are determined by the very subject of thought and the nature of the tasks posed. The following cognition methods were used in the article: general philosophical, general scientific theoretical methods. The author followed the principle of objectivity, applied causal analysis. The final results of the study of the topic lead the thought to the following proposition.\u0000Within the synergetic paradigm, the focus of scientists has shifted to the phenomenon of instability and randomness in the course of the processes of the world. This led to the foundation of a new non-linear way of thinking. It also led to the penetration of the provisions of nonlinear determinism in the main disciplinary practices – science, philosophy and religion. Ontological philosophical ideas about the nature of the original nomology (about the essence of the fundamental laws of the universe) have changed. The traditional views on the uniqueness of connections and relationships in nature are revised. This was favored by the development of nonequilibrium thermodynamics and the introduction into the scientific knowledge of statistical techniques and research operations.\u0000In understanding the causality of classical science, as well as in the picture of the world that this science offered, God, who casts lots, was a stranger and superfluous. However, modern science offers a new vision of the world. It is based on the nonlinearity of the development of the world and the pluralism of ","PeriodicalId":196975,"journal":{"name":"Sophia. Human and Religious Studies Bulletin","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117258626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"IRRATIONAL AND RATIONAL RELIGIOUS IN SCIENTIFIC COGNITION","authors":"M. Stadnyk","doi":"10.17721/sophia.2019.14.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17721/sophia.2019.14.6","url":null,"abstract":"In the article, the author reveals the metaphysical systems of the irrational justification for the existence of the supernatural. It is shown that diverse arguments in the protection of the supernatural are based on references to the limited and historical underdevelopment of human practice, the evidence of the presence of uncontrolled and therefore incomprehensible phenomena of nature, society and the human psyche. A characteristic feature of theological cognition is not systematic, but spontaneous, irrational at its basis. The process of cognition for Orthodox theologians involves the domination of faith and the silence of the mind. A similar understanding of the process of cognition and the role of science has changed over time. The logic of the structure of religious consciousness shows that the mind in this process plays only an auxiliary role along with the intuitively gained faith. With this understanding, the role of faith significantly increases and the role of knowledge diminishes and therefore thought of a person, his scientific search is completely ignored. At the same time, the idea that cognitive activity should be focused above all on the comprehension of God is embedded in the consciousness of a person. Under the influence of the growing role of science, theologians began to point out in some questions not only the possible combination of religion with scientific knowledge, but also to prove the beneficial influence of religion on science. In theological understanding, this indicates the leading role of religion in the emergence of science. The task of religion is the knowledge of the supernatural through the suggestion, conviction of people in its reality. Scientific knowledge strives for objective significance and maximum accuracy, excluding all personal and subjective. Religion not only recognizes subjectivism but also brings theological faith and inner experiences to the rank of criteria of truth. Science is characterized by dynamism and development. It relies on rational knowledge. Religion is conservative, static in nature. Its support is irrational consciousness. Science is based on experience. However, the basis of religion is a belief in supernatural, mystical experience. The comparative analysis of scientific and religious knowledge indicates that their purpose, methods and criteria of knowledge are essentially opposite.","PeriodicalId":196975,"journal":{"name":"Sophia. Human and Religious Studies Bulletin","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129176774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"IDEAS OF KANTIAN PHILOSOPHY IN THE RECEPTION OF UKRAINIAN THOUGHT (IN THE STUDIES OF P. KOPNIN, V. SHINKARUK, M. BULATOV, A. SAVCHENKO)","authors":"V. Savchenko","doi":"10.17721/sophia.2019.14.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17721/sophia.2019.14.10","url":null,"abstract":"The article covers the experience of reconstruction of Kant's logical and methodological conception of the norms and rules of posing questions (problems, problems) in the natural sciences and in the sciences of the pure mind. His epistemological justification of the problem of scientific knowledge is noted. The main focus is on the substantiation of the reception of Kantian philosophy in the works of P. Kopnin, V. Shinkaruk, M. Bulatov, and A. Savchenko. The article is devoted to the study of Kant's philosophy at the Taras Shevchenko State University in the 80's of the XX century. The importance of Kant's philosophy in a professional university environment and its influence on the development of domestic philosophical thought are considered. In the first half of the XX century, the mainstream of national philosophy was the idealistic direction. Kant's place in the development of domestic philosophy, especially his ethical teaching, was decisive. Kantian freedom has in its content the spiritual components: philosophical, psychological, religious – and defines Kant's place in national philosophy in the 80's of the XX century. Thus, considering Kant's philosophy in its own self-worth and integrity, concreteness, as a value in itself (not ignorant, of course, is the fact that it is an integral part of German classical philosophy), not only legitimate, but necessary. Most of the works are devoted to various (separate, individual) problems of Kant's philosophical system, the classification of which is carried out on several grounds. As a rule, researchers proceed from the division of Kant's work into two periods – critical and critical. There is a tendency (still weak) of research at the methodological level of communication between the pre-critical and critical periods.","PeriodicalId":196975,"journal":{"name":"Sophia. Human and Religious Studies Bulletin","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121119760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"THE ALL-UKRAINIAN COUNCIL OF CHURCHES AND RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS. OVER TWENTY YEARS OF OPERATION: ACHIEVEMENTS AND PROSPECTS","authors":"Larysa Vladychenko","doi":"10.17721/sophia.2019.14.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17721/sophia.2019.14.1","url":null,"abstract":"This article reviews the specificity of the institutional area of interreligious and interconfessional relations in Ukraine. It highlights the preconditions for the emergence of one of the interreligious associations of Ukraine – the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations. The structure and the statutory documents of the AUCCRO are reviewed in the article. The author investigates the specifics of the activity and peculiarities of the organizational structure of the Council. The Council's cooperation with state institutions is analyzed and the problematic aspects of the interconfessional and state-confessional spheres are identified.\u0000Two periods in the existence of the AUCCRO are highlighted in the article: from 1996 to 2004 and from 2005 to the present. Particular attention is given to the prerequisites and the possibility of the emergence of the AUCCRO in correlation to the cooperation with the State body of Ukraine for religious affairs in the context of the current religious situation and interreligious/interconfessional relations at the beginning of Ukraine's independence. The formation of the AUCCRO under the central executive authority was prompted by the need to resolve property conflicts among religious organizations. The AUCCRO facilitated the dialogue between the authorities and religious organizations and involved representatives of the religious community in solving the problematic issues of the interconfessional state-religious complex at that time.\u0000The article draws attention to the change of the organizational form of the AUCCRO after the political changes in the country in 2004 and the reduction of the status of the State body of Ukraine for religious affairs. The AUCCRO has been acquiring a new format of activity, which is specified in the Regulation on the AUCCRO, since 2005. Attention is drawn to some of the inaccuracies of the statistical nature and internal organization of the AUCCRO, which is criticized by other religious communities.\u0000The practical activities of the AUCCRO and the organizational mechanism of its activity are analyzed. The author emphasizes on the topical issues for the religious community that AUCCRO raises in its appeals to the government officials. The AUCCRO's mechanism of the cooperation with the state authorities through the formation and further activity of the advisory bodies of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the penitentiary system is shown.","PeriodicalId":196975,"journal":{"name":"Sophia. Human and Religious Studies Bulletin","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114667229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS OF THE MENTALISTIC LOGIC","authors":"Jaroslav Petik","doi":"10.17721/sophia.2019.14.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17721/sophia.2019.14.9","url":null,"abstract":"Paper deals with philosophical problems of mentalistic logic. Mentalistic logic is a formal system that concentrates on underpinning processes of mental life instead of certain elements of extrinsic rational behavior as most of existing logics (like BDI calculi) do. The project is compared to the existing logics of actions. Mentalistic logic is patually a formal system and partually phenomenological study of human mind. We presume formal signs such as propositions and modal operators refer to mental states and can describe the general structure of mental activity. That is purely the approach of classical phenomenology – the study of experience and its structures. On the other hand the usage of formal logic is a classic analytic philosophy of mind. So the things are getting more complicated when taking in consideration that the initial framework of a study is analytic philosophy and not continental phenomenology. Phenomenology is of different intellectual and methodological tradition than any type of analytic philosophy including analytic philosophy of mind. From that stanpoint it may be said that paper is also interesting as a purely methodological project – it tries to find bridges between phenomenology and philosophy of mind. As for the action logics, mentalistic logic also studies rational behavior but does it on the other lever and often with a different purpose. The main problem in this case is philosophical interpretation of modality. Minor problems include shared content, many leveled self-referential structures and vagueness. The paper also studies brain in a vatt thought experiment as a methodological concept. The research will have implications for philosophy of logic, artificial intelligence and theory of reference.","PeriodicalId":196975,"journal":{"name":"Sophia. Human and Religious Studies Bulletin","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124271920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"MODERN NEO-PAGANISM IN THE CONTEXT OF MEDIATIZATION OF RELIGION IN UKRAINE","authors":"Oksana Koliban","doi":"10.17721/sophia.2019.14.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17721/sophia.2019.14.4","url":null,"abstract":"In the article analyzes the features of modern neo-paganism in Ukraine and the level of its organizations representation in the information space of Ukraine. The study analyzed the level of representation of neo-pagan religious communities in secular, multi-religious and mono-religious media. Content monitoring and analysis of the secular media (including electronic media) has shown that religious organizations of neo-pagan orientation rarely appear in the materials of all-Ukrainian editions. They are written about little more often in regional editions, however, as a rule, it is related to pagan rites and customs that have been preserved in Ukraine. Thus, coverage of activities of neo-pagan organizations operating in Ukraine is not represented widespread in the secular electronic media. The low level of representation in the secular media causes a number of reasons, namely: the small number of communities, the absence of press services of organizations, the lack of initiative of believers to give interviews, the lack of financial opportunity to participate in various multi-religious events, etc. However, in a multi-religious projects, particularly in the information platform \"Religious Information Service\" of Ukraine, rare materials and appeals to life issues of neo- pagan organizations are contained. Thus, we note the lack of widespread coverage of news and materials of neo-pagan organizations and their activities in Ukraine in secular and multi-religious media. Due to above named reasons, theme of mediatization of neo-pagan religion organizations revealed more through activity multi-religious media, ie through their own channels. The feature of joining the information space of Ukraine of neo-pagan organizations is characterized by creating their own channels, filling them with relevant information, based on their view, and lack of overall numerical representation. It can be traced that older religious organizations have their own site, while newly created communities are more oriented to already existing social networks and conduct their informational activities on separately created pages.","PeriodicalId":196975,"journal":{"name":"Sophia. Human and Religious Studies Bulletin","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130821018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"QUINTESENCE OF THE SPIRITUAL TEMPLES OF VOLYN AT THE END OF XIX – EARLY XX CENTURIES IN THE SERMONS OF VOLYNSKIY AND ZHYTOMYRSKIY ARCHBISHOP DIMITRIY","authors":"O. Moroz","doi":"10.17721/sophia.2019.14.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17721/sophia.2019.14.5","url":null,"abstract":"The analysis of the sermons of the Archbishop of Volynskyy and Zhytomyrskyy Dimitriy, delivered on the occasion of the opening of the Orthodox Churches in Volyn region at the end of XIX – early XX centuries, is relevant. It helps to analyze and reveal the symbolic and essential features of the Orthodox Church, to compare the outlook and religious views of modern Orthodox adherents in assessing the role of the spiritual temple, determining its place in the life of the modern man. Spiritual temples of Volyn region at the end of XIX – early XX centuries as religious and cultural centers have been played an important role in the life of the region. The purpose of this article is to analyze the main symbolic content of the architectural forms of the Orthodox Church, to find out their meaningful content, to convey to the modern generation the spiritual and sacred meaning of the religious temple through the prism of Christian virtues.\u0000Research methods: according to the purposes a wide range of methods was applied. The historical method was used to clarify the foundations and purpose of the first religious buildings of Christianity. Structural-functional method was used for revealing the basic ideas of architectural forms of the temple, their symbolic and sacred content related to basic criteria of life of the Orthodox adept: attending spiritual temples, Divine liturgies; observance of the Decalogue, the sacraments of the Orthodox Church; love, morality, humility. The method of comparison and analogy was applied to highlight the vital priorities of a true Orthodox adept.\u0000The author notes that the spiritual temple is the God's Kingdom on earth, the source and the original guardian of spiritual and religious values. The quintessence of the spiritual temples of Volyn at the end of XIX – early XX centuries is expressed by: firstly, the spiritual temple is a symbol of the impulse of human essence to heaven, eternal, sacred; secondly, the spiritual temple is a holy and unity place (holiness is expressed by the concentration of the mighty power of the Holy Spirit, unity is expressed by the uniting power of believers of the Orthodox people); thirdly, the value of the spiritual temple, according to the thoughts of Archbishop of Volynskyy and Zhytomyrskyy Dimitriy, is not determined by external decoration, but by the sacraments of the Orthodox Church, sincere prayer.","PeriodicalId":196975,"journal":{"name":"Sophia. Human and Religious Studies Bulletin","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129327927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}