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.
Authors and Affiliations
Ihor KAPRITSYN
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP177536
- DOI -
- Views 89
- Downloads 0
The sources of religious fundamentalism in the constructivist model of Shmuel Eisenstadt.
The article analyzes the components of the constructivist models of Shmuel Eisenstadt as they relate to the discovery of the reasons for the appearance of religious fundamentalism. It establishes that religious fundament...
CHRISTIAN SOCIALISM AS AN OBJECT OF STUDYING BY THE REPRESENTATIVES OF RUSSIAN RELIGIOUS AND PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT
In the article certain principles of formation of the foundations of Christian socialism are considered, and extrapolation to the present is done. The categories analyzed are the social ideal, the social system, which ca...
PARADIGMATIC MODEL OF SCIENTIFIC PICTURE OF THE WORLD IN MODERN HUMANITIES AND CONCEPTUALIZATION OF THE PHENOMENON OF TECHNIQUE Tereshkun О. F. Humanities and scientific paradigms of technology / O. F. Tereshkun. – Ivano-Frankivsk: Publisher Кushnir H. М., 2016. – 354 p.
The publication of Oksana Tereshkun's book «Humanities and scientific paradigms of technology» (Ivano-Frankivsk, 2016) is a notable event in the philosophical life of modern Ukraine and in the national philosophical trad...
THE VISION OF “BLISS” AS A TYPE OF HAPPINESS IN ANTONIY RADIVILOVSKIY’S HOMILETICS
Introduction. The article is devoted to the research of visions about bliss as a type of happiness in the homiletics heritage of Antoniy Radivilovskiy. This topic is an integral part of mora-ethical teaching of Ukrainian...
POST-INDUSTRIAL DIMENSION OF UKRAINIAN SOCIETY
Introduction. Modern society is on the stage, which is characterized by new economic and ideological positions. With the development of information in today’s world, humanity is moving to a new stage of development, name...