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{"title":"RELIGIOUS INTERPRETATION' PECULIARITIES OF THE \"ABSOLUTE\" CONCEPT IN THE WORK OF E. GOLOSOVKER \"IMAGINATIVE ABSOLUTE\"","authors":"Olha Prymak","doi":"10.17721/sophia.2022.20.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17721/sophia.2022.20.11","url":null,"abstract":"The article considers the peculiarities of philosophical understanding and definition of the concept of \"absolute\" in the works of Russian philosopher Y. Golosovker. We suggest a consistent analysis of the original creativity theory of the Russian researcher and the place of the term \"imaginative absolute\". The theory of creativity is considered as a unique philosophical construct, which is marked by the synthesis of culturological, aesthetic and epistemological orientations of the author. The imaginative absolute appears as a human genius, an instinct that provides the basis for the existence of culture, remaining on the border of human-secular and ideal-value. In addition, the article focuses on the study of the religious nature of the absolute in the views of Golosovker. In particular, a reasonable assumption is made about the non-religious semantics of the absolute concept. Golosovker's views and attitudes to religion are also revealed.","PeriodicalId":196975,"journal":{"name":"Sophia. Human and Religious Studies Bulletin","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114352438","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":"MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN ETHICS","authors":"Yaroslav Petik","doi":"10.17721/sophia.2019.13.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17721/sophia.2019.13.14","url":null,"abstract":"Paper views the possibility of application of mathematical methods such as matrix algebra and game theory to analyzing the ethical contexts. Philosophical problems of usage of formal systems in humanities are described in general and analogies with economical mathematics and historical processes modeling are drawn. The moral dimension is proposed to be introduced for some famous scenarios in game theory and the potential of cooperation of this part of mathematics and philosophical ethics is studied. The moral estimation of players and connected hypotheses are then proposed to be introduced. The main new idea of the first chapter of the paper is that it is possible to provide an additional matrix which will estimate the moral events happening in the scenario (at least for some of the scenarios). Every decision of a player will cause not only the changes in strategies of other players and outcomes of the game but also certain precise moral evaluation of the particular action. The famous game theory scenario called prisoner's dilemma is given as a working example of such an approach. Consequently now we can use not only the gradation of players according to their initial strategies but also their \"moral type\". Paper than centers on exploring of how the moral influences the \"material\" strategies and decisions and also proposes the basic classification of moral types of players. A separate attention is given to one of such types which should be a mathematical encompassing of the negative sides of human nature in social activites. The paper will be useful for everyone who is interested in ethics, philosophical methodology of ethics, philosophy of mathematics and general relations between formal systems and humanities.","PeriodicalId":196975,"journal":{"name":"Sophia. Human and Religious Studies Bulletin","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126291713","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":"Socially significant activities of the religious communities of the UGCC in Ukraine during the period of independence","authors":"Tetiana Koshushko","doi":"10.17721/sophia.2021.18.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17721/sophia.2021.18.6","url":null,"abstract":"This research is devoted to the issues of socially significant activities carried out by religious communities belonging to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Ukraine during the period of independence. In the course of the research, using official web portals and other publicly covered resources, the factual material was analyzed and theoretical generalizations were subjected to philosophical and religious reflection, which allowed determining the following: the intensity of social activities carried out by the religious communities of the Catholic Church in Ukraine during the period of independence is caused by external processes of democratization and general spiritual renewal of society; the integrative intentions that declare the cooperation of Catholics with public structures are emphasized, postulating the idea that activities are a kind of service that leads to a certain interpenetration of Christian values in society, creating a special dialogue between believers and people of the secular worldview. Thus, openness and empathy with social problems, joint search for solutions to social issues, and the introduction of the idea of the dominance of Christian landmarks by members of the Catholic community creates conditions for finding options for positive reconstruction of the domestic social space; the functional competence and coordinated structure of the work of Catholic religious communities are noted, as well as real examples of the priority of religious freedom and interfaith tolerance are indicated; the multi-vector nature of the work carried out during the implementation of various social projects in the charitable, educational, cultural, publishing, medical, publishing, and military spheres is highlighted; it was found that the activities of representatives of the Catholic religious communities in the social sector are largely based on certain work strategies that appeal to theoretical postulates, socially-oriented documents of the Catholic Church, and, accordingly, formalized in special guidelines. In general, the article is based on the general provisions declared by the official position of the Catholic Church on social policy and outlines the areas in which the religious communities of the UGCC develop social activities in Ukraine since independence.","PeriodicalId":196975,"journal":{"name":"Sophia. Human and Religious Studies Bulletin","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115053467","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":"CHRISTIAN GEOPOLITICS: HIS ALL-HOLINESS ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH BARTHOLOMEW І AND UKRAINIAN AUTOCEPHALY","authors":"T. Trush","doi":"10.17721/sophia.2022.19.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17721/sophia.2022.19.15","url":null,"abstract":"This article will discuss the role of the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew І in restoring the independence of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine. Today we are witnessing radical changes in our country. These changes are related to the restoration and struggle of Ukraine for its independence. It is a struggle both in the political arena and in the arena of the national church project. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew has been an invaluable help in this direction for Ukraine. Therefore, this article will highlight the path Ukraine has taken to receive Thomas. The giving of Thomas to Ukraine is a solution to a universal global question that has lasted for centuries. Thomas is a borderline of sorts against Russian encroachment on Ukrainian lands, church, and culture. And the events of 2018 at the Cathedral of Bishops of the Ecumenical Patriarchate become important from a geopolitical point of view. The consequence was the restoration of the independence of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.","PeriodicalId":196975,"journal":{"name":"Sophia. Human and Religious Studies Bulletin","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124100591","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":"HIS ALL-HOLINESS ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH BARTHOLOMEW І AS PATRIARCH AND HUMANIST","authors":"Konstantin Vergeles, Liudmila Konotop","doi":"10.17721/sophia.2022.19.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17721/sophia.2022.19.3","url":null,"abstract":"The article examines the figure of the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, his pastoral ministry and humanistic attitude to the world and man on the basis of various sources and from the standpoint of comparative analysis. The problem of humanism and human relations is one of the main problems of the modern world, and Dimitrios Archondonis – Bartholomew I demonstrates with his life and deeds, the example of Christian humanism and love of neighbour, as it is commanded by Jesus Christ himself in the New Testament. The process of Ukrainian state renaissance, its national and spiritual formation are followed by a growing interest in Christian humanism, which in its essence and direction is an effective means of \"moral healing\", \"spiritual revival\", the formation of national identity, affirmation of its culture and \"healthy\" consciousness. Various philosophical, scientific, religious and other ideas and views on ecology, nature and man, the meaning of its existence, place and role in the world, which were developed and implemented throughout the historical development of world philosophy and culture in modern Ukraine need not only ideological and theoretical reasoning, but also a visual demonstration of examples of Christian humanism, an example of which is Bartholomew's I life and pastoral serving of God. Emphasizing the existence of a deep moral crisis in modern society, the Ecumenical Patriarch sees the root cause of all global problems in it. The way out of this crisis, in his opinion, is the formation of a new philosophy of international relations, the focus on broad international cooperation, the creation of a common European home, the Christianization of the whole Earth through the \"evangelization of its peoples.\" Like all Christian churches, the Orthodox patriarch believes that the problem of war and peace is a planetary, global problem and at the same time a global challenge to all \"globalized humanity\" today. And the development of a new concept called \"theology of peace\" (or Orthodox \"myrology\"), started in the 60s of last century created by his ideologues, was the response of Orthodoxy to this challenge. A characteristic feature of the whole period of Bartholomew's I Patriarchal reign is the constant moral and humanistic dialogue not only in the middle of Orthodoxy itself, but also among the whole Christian world as a whole. The idea of harmony, tolerance, mutual understanding for him is the main issue for conversation and constructive dialogue with various religious figures and denominations.","PeriodicalId":196975,"journal":{"name":"Sophia. Human and Religious Studies Bulletin","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129310054","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":"RELIGIOUS IDENTITY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE ETHNO-NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF UKRAINE","authors":"Viacheslav Каlаch","doi":"10.17721/sophia.2019.13.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17721/sophia.2019.13.5","url":null,"abstract":"The article discusses the peculiarities of the formation of religious identity in the dynamics of geopolitical processes in Ukraine, which depend on historical conditions, features of the economic and socio-political structure, democratic and cultural traditions of society, the level of legal and moral development of its members and the ambitions of its leaders. It is proved that religion is a decisive factor in the ethnic life of Ukrainians, and the controversial role of Christianity in ethno-identification and ethno-consolidation processes is noted.\u0000The modern world-wide political, economic and spiritual crisis imposes its imprint on Ukraine as well. As one of the transitional countries of the post-socialist space, our state has not yet found a single-minded vector of its own development, in particular, the ecclesiastical. Ukraine is only on the verge of forming a united national idea and crystallizing its own self-identification on the religious marker.\u0000Religion is the basic semantic-forming component of a unified national identity. Today, religious and ethnic identities are closely intertwined. Therefore, the problem of the ethnorelain factor always attracts significant attention of leading scholars, statesmen and church hierarchs. In Ukraine, a significant number of religious groups completely coincide with the boundaries of a separate ethnic group. The lack of civic consensus on the country's foreign policy, cultural identity, separate sovereign positions of the Ukrainian state, the diverse views of the past and the future at the present makes it impossible to formulate unanimous interests, which negatively affects external and internal policies.\u0000Compared with the Soviet period, religious identity today is a relatively new category. On opposition to the state-civilian benchmark for many Ukrainians, religion is on the forefront. Undeniably, Orthodoxy played a very important role in the formation of the Ukrainian nation and our religious identity. However, today, multiconfessional diversity and inability or reluctance to negotiate, to be tolerant, break Ukraine into several regions. The negative tendency of loss of awareness of Ukrainians of the unity of religion, nation, common spirit is traced.\u0000The formation of religious identity is a long process of formation of society as a whole, and is a consequence of the historical formation of Ukraine as a nation. Religious identification is the reproduction of accumulated social and religious experience in all spheres. World and domestic scholars are unequivocal in the conclusions that the central place in the formation of national identity belongs to religiousness. Religious beliefs that have an indelible imprint of an ethnic group living on a particular territory are precisely the center of the formation of a new national-religious identity of Ukrainian society.","PeriodicalId":196975,"journal":{"name":"Sophia. Human and Religious Studies Bulletin","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127491215","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":"COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE OF RELIGIOUS AND COMMERCIAL INSTITUTIONS","authors":"Dimitriy Zaiets","doi":"10.17721/sophia.2022.20.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17721/sophia.2022.20.3","url":null,"abstract":"Based on various sources, the article analyzes the structure of organizational culture, both commercial and religious. Already known precedents are considered in detail, when the organizational culture of a commercial structure acquires signs of a religious one; the causes, consequences and mechanisms of such a metamorphosis are also considered. Another one considered main issue is point of no return when a corporation gets occult features. The article is based on the assertion that the ideas for organizing a certain structure, regardless of its strategic goals, are inherently similar and identical to both a commercial and a religious structure. As this issue is not completely covered and scientifically re-searched, it is one of the first attempts to structure abstract organization despite of its status (commercial or religious). Also, the article has analysis of real cases both commercial and religious organizations, considers the negative and positive sides. Reviewing the train of thinking of organization leaders we may also make a conclusion in what degree the organization is affected by it's leader. However, the article considers the affection of members on the organization and their global synergy. The article also can be considered as small introduction to \"how to build up organization culture based on religious elements\". Just another sentence for printing. Understanding the essence of organization's structure, the steps on which it is located, will automatically help you build the organizational culture of your organization and not resort to toxicity and the occultism which leads to negative consequences: the loss of quality personnel as a result of low motivation of its members, which can later lead to the destruction of the organization generally (in worst case, it may lead to scandals, litigation and even suicides). To build a successful organizational culture, it is wise to draw on the lessons of the past, embodied in religious organizations.","PeriodicalId":196975,"journal":{"name":"Sophia. Human and Religious Studies Bulletin","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130173362","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":"CHURCH AND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN UKRAINE: VACCINATION AS A CHALLENGE","authors":"Y. Boreiko, Mykhailo Kulakevych, T. Fedotova","doi":"10.17721/sophia.2022.19.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17721/sophia.2022.19.2","url":null,"abstract":"The article examines the attitude of churches and religious organizations in Ukraine and their followers to vaccination against CoViD-19. It was established that immunization is one of the challenges of modern society, which concerns the sphere of religion as the refusal to vaccinate is often explained by religious motives. Churches and religious organizations in Ukraine demonstrate a common position on immunization as a voluntary and informed choice, emphasizing that this issue is within the competence of health professionals. One of the incentives that motivate believers to get vaccinated is the opening of vaccination points at temples. The attitude of believers to vaccination is not due to religious affiliation but to official information about the coronavirus and vaccination, which has a low level of trust.","PeriodicalId":196975,"journal":{"name":"Sophia. Human and Religious Studies Bulletin","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131675871","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":"RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM AND HUMAN RIGHTS: THE IDEA AND MODERN PRACTICE","authors":"A. Marchenko","doi":"10.17721/sophia.2022.19.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17721/sophia.2022.19.6","url":null,"abstract":"The content of the concept of religious fundamentalism is analyzed; the peculiarities of positioning and forms of manifestation of the phenomenon of religious fundamentalism in the socio-cultural space of the modern world are considered; the specifics of the relationship and the existing fundamental contradictions between fundamentalist ideas and practices and the idea of human rights and ways to defend them are studied. It is concluded that religious fundamentalism is a complex phenomenon that has not only a purely religious nature but also socio-political essence, gives to faith an ideological character, and provides social action against cultural modernity and secular nature of power, while following religious orthodoxy. Religious fundamentalists seek to adhere strictly to the foundations of their sacred sources and texts, to defend a monopoly on the only possible point of view based on them, to follow unconditionally the letter of proposed definitions and interpretations, which is inevitably embodied in a certain doctrinal intransigence, which often contradicts modern values, which are usually associated with human rights and fundamental freedoms. Religious fundamentalism manifests itself as a worldview, an interpretation of reality based on a certain religious matrix, combined with political actions that flow from it and aimed at weakening democratic processes, against policies to promote pluralism and diversity in their interdependence. Religious fundamentalism is a divisive force that denies dialogue and democracy, asserts its view as absolute and the only possible, leads to the self-separation of religious fundamentalists from those who do not share their credo, restricts individual freedoms and human rights, and is the antithesis of them. In its most extreme forms, religious fundamentalism emerges as radicalism, which, when applied in practice, negatively affects not only the human rights situation but also the security or life of individuals and human communities.","PeriodicalId":196975,"journal":{"name":"Sophia. Human and Religious Studies Bulletin","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114055204","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 PLANT IMAGERY IN THE AESTHETICS OF THE CULT PRACTICE OF THE ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH","authors":"I. Kondratyeva, Iryna Fenno","doi":"10.17721/sophia.2022.20.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17721/sophia.2022.20.6","url":null,"abstract":"The article is devoted to the study of plant imagery as an important aesthetic-semantic component of the cult practices of the Armenian Apostolic Church. The Armenian Apostolic Church is not only a unique, ancient institution among the circle of Christian churches, but also represents an original cultural world, manifested in a cult rich in its theological content and artistic form, that's why it deserves to be present in the religious studies, aesthetic, cultural, historical research discourses. Using textological, semiotic and phenomenological methods, the authors analyze the implicit content of individual plant images of the cult space of the church. Various elements of the Armenian sacred art were used to reveal the foundations of the dogma, which ensured the formation of an original the-aesthetics. Armenian sacral art formed the aesthetic world of imagery of the Christian religion. The organic inclusion of plant imagery in the general Christian picture of the world, reflected in the artistic representations of the art of sacral sculpture and church poetry, the inspiration of which was the biblical and early Christian imagery, which symbolic interpretations deepened the understanding of the evangelical truths and constituted the original aesthetic world of the Armenian national culture was proved. In the article, the authors pay attention to the study of plant imagery in cult practices, in particular with the example of monumental khachkars, liturgical texts of the shakarans dedicated to the Holy Virgin and the Christian saints, which are especially popular among the Armenian people, first of all St. Gregory the Illuminator. Thus, the plant imagery occupies an important place in the temple cult practices of the Armenian Apostolic Church, as well as in the aesthetic sphere of the Armenian national culture and ethno-consciousness.","PeriodicalId":196975,"journal":{"name":"Sophia. Human and Religious Studies Bulletin","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133508122","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}