The Ideas of National Public Religion in the Works of Ukrainian Cultural Renaissance Figures (the End of XVI - the Beginning of XVII century)

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The Ideas of National Public Religion in the Works of Ukrainian Cultural Renaissance Figures (the End of XVI - the Beginning of XVII century)

Journal Title: Мultiversum. Philosophical almanac - Year 2016, Vol 0, Issue 3

Abstract

The article substantiates the argument that the national civil religion characteristic of a community that struggles statehood. Under these conditions, the underlying phenomenon appears as a sacred dimension aspirations of the nation to recovery and strengthening of statehood, community perceptions of their effectiveness as given in which certain socio-political guidelines specifically intertwined with religious myths, legends, rituals, practices. Civil religion has its roots in the community need to find a sacred transcendent eternitylinear action that is rooted in the history of the area. The article presents basic concepts of national public religion of defined period, such as Rus orthodox kindred is blessed and that is why Holy Rus land is insuperable; Rus preachers act on the instruction of God; the significance of the Cossack community in the protection of true Christianity; Rus is being under the protection of the first apostle and that is why it takes the special place in the Christian world; Kyiv is the second Jerusalem.

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Tymofiy Zinkevych

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