THE DETERMINANTS OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF UKRAINIAN RELIGIOUS CULTURE
Journal Title: Вісник Черкаського університетету. Серія Філософія - Year 2016, Vol 1, Issue 1
Abstract
The religious revival in Ukraine is happening on the background of the ideological vacuum and is used as a means of cultural consolidation. Ukrainian religious culture is considered as a historically made up form of religious relations and the corresponding system of religious activities of believers, they have created the religious organizations, material and spiritual results, values belonging to the people, to the individual at a certain stage of development. Addressing the core Ukrainian nation's religious culture is based on the national existence and national consciousness, including climatic, cultural, historical, social, national, religious and spiritual foundations of Ukrainian life. Purpose. Socio-philosophical consideration of Ukrainian religious culture. Methods. The dialectical approach, complemented by the principles of tolerance and complementarity. Results. Significantly for Ukraine is the coexistence of migratory habits and sedentary cultures, existence at the intersection of major trade routes. Contacts with the ancient colonies in the Black Sea region were creating the effect of a highly developed ancient Greek civilization, which provides a dynamic cultural development. The primary religion in Ukraine is a paganism, whose evolution was interrupted by the baptism of Kievan Rus. "Superficial" political baptism with the preservation of the pagan worldview, gives Orthodox Christianity etatistic and paganism - folk features of consciousness. Originality. Determining the nature of religious culture as a social human activities aimed at the reproduction of the interaction of human and his hypostatize ideal in the form of superhuman consciousness. Specific features of the complex Ukrainian religious culture are: anteizm, close connection with nature, "openness", world's "sophianic". Conclusion and specific proposal of the author. Ukrainian religious culture, unlimited only by Christianity, is an important example of complementary co-existence of different systems. Taking over the functions of custodian of the Ukrainian culture, Christianity demonstrates a limited range of social functionality, beyond which are topical issues of contemporary culture, logical actualizing the natural potential of Ukraine confessional.
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Ihor KAPRITSYN
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