In this research, author analyzes and interprets data of sociological researches of the Razumkov Centre concerning the religious self-identification of Ukrainian citizens, their attitude towards the Church in general and towards the denominations and religions presented in Ukraine in the dynamics from the year 2000 to nowadays. The author also considers external and internal outlook trends and shows a dangerous contradiction between them. As an alternative to solve this conflict, the author suggests the idea of Open Orthodoxy and presents an (...) example of its implementation in projects of the Open Orthodox University of Saint Sophia the Wisdom. (shrink)

Mechanisms to ensure the integrity of the system stable evolutionary strategy Homo sapiens – genetic and cultural coevolution techno-cultural balance – are analyzed. оe main content of the study can be summarized in the following the- ses: stable adaptive strategy of Homo sapiens includes superposition of three basic types (biological, cultural and technological) of adaptations, the integrity of the system provides by two coevolutionary ligament its elements – the genetic-cultural coevolution and techno-cultural balance, the system takes as result of by (...) develop- ment of genetic and information technologies by advent of genetic and informa- tion technologies extremely unstable conūguration; a harbinger of a radical change in the mechanisms of global evolution religion is a consequence of structural and functional organization of the human psyche; it played (along with science and technology) the role of socio-cultural adaptation of the human mind are present a number of ideas or concepts (the idea of God, including) the genesis of that ideas is associated with the interaction of two information systems, that appear to each other as information substrates – emotional, and verbal-logical (discursive) forms; evolution of the mentality has two nodes, that corresponding to the dominance of rationalism or religion in spiritual culture; the problem of rational justiūcation of religion in modern science is presented by two alternative methodologies – evo- lutionary epistemological and metaphysical-ontological ones; both methodologies are incompatible in a logical perspective; in the evolutionary epistemological im- pact concept of religion and science are equal and alternative building blocks of a stable evolutionary strategy of Homo sapiens, and their balance sheet pro. (shrink)

The article is aimed at revealing the key features of epistemological paradigms, which change each other in the process of development of Western European thinking. The need for such a study is due to the fact that the distinction ‘classic – non-classic’, which is accepted in Russian philosophical literature, has a formal character. The non-classical paradigm is defined by indicating the absence of certain features of the classical paradigm, such as, for example, fundamentalism, self-centrism, science-centrism, but not by finding the (...) internal principle of each paradigm, on the basis of which its secondary features and the structure specificity of the conscious world of the corresponding epoch could be derived. In search of the basis for paradigm differences, the author turns to the analysis of the classical paradigm. As the analysis shows, it is determined by a change in understanding of the key epistemological opposition – the opposition of our knowledge of reality and reality itself. Тhe ancient and medieval opposition of the sensible and the supra-sensible is replaced by the opposition of subjective and the objective. Thus, the distinction between our knowledge of reality and reality itself is moved into the area of the conscious world, which gives rise to the process of autonomization of this world from another world. This key feature allows us to outline the classic epistemology and answer a number of debatable questions, for example, the question of whether I. Kant and G.V.F. Hegel are the classical philosophers. As the subject-object relation becomes a key epistemological relation, the further paradigm shifts are determined by changes in understanding of the character of this relation and its role in cognition. The author of article shows that the non-classical paradigm, the formation of which begins in the works of A. Schopenhauer, brings with it a denial of the division of the conscious world into subjective and objective contents and the transformation of the relation ‘subject – object’ into the correlation ‘objectification – object’, which implies the exclusion of the subjective from the sphere of consciousness. The analysis allows us to conclude that, contrary to M. Heidegger, the age when the world becomes a picture is not the classical, but the nonclassical epoch. It can be called the epoch of total objectivism, the reverse side of which is subjectivism. The next paradigmatic shift is prepared by the transformation of the worldpicture into the world-text, in which the subject-object relation loses its structure-forming role in the conscious world. As the study shows, the change of the cognitive attitude that determines the structure of the conscious world is carried out through the assumption of a new distinction between the known and the unknown. (shrink)

The paper is aimed at the analysis of the latest approaches to research in the social sciences including mobility paradigm, the transnational perspective and the gendered approach to the study of social phenomenа. The research problem addressed in the paper is the possibility of examining these innovative approaches to social phenomena in a dialectical nexus. The paper draws from the analysis of secondary theoretical sources backed up by the findings of a multi-cited field research focused on the study of gendered (...) implications of Ukrainian labour migration using a mixed-method approach. The paper illustrates the possibilities of applying the transnational paradigm to migration and mobilities studies, placing special emphasis on its advantages. It traces existing approaches to the research on transnational family and cross-border parenthood, using the Ukraine as the case in point. The heuristic and social relevance of the paper consists in casting light on the specificities of gendered approach to the study of economic mobility and labour migration in Ukraine, in outlining the effect of migration and transnationalism on families of Ukrainian transmigrants, in showcasing the specificity of independent female migration in the context of global care chains, and in examining its gender effect on the transformations of mentality and identities of Ukrainian labour migrants. (shrink)

Приріст населення за рахунок міграції, географічна відокремленість, наявність корінних народів несуть свій відбиток на формування спільних рис у політичних системах США та Канади. Проте є чимало інших факторів, які сприяли еволюції цих держав у ті структури, якими ми їх знаємо сьогодні. Незважаючи на економічну могутність, політичну вагу, місце на геополітичній, геоекономічній та геокультурній мапах світу, США та Канада не є ізольованими утвореннями та перебувають під дією процесів демократизації, модернізації та глобалізації. Американська війна за незалежність вкупі з набором ціннісних орієнтирів іммігрантів (...) до США та Канади, справили визначальний вплив на формування та трансформацію існуючих політичних систем цих держав, їх політичної культури, ставлення до багатокультурності, міграції та расової дискримінації. (shrink)

We consider the appearance of Antytrynitary religious association of Evangelical Christians in the Spirit of the Apostles, dynamics and key factors for its development. Relevance of the study process of becoming Pentecostal movement in Ukraine as a religious Antytrynitary phenomenon caused features of his development. Antytrynitary men are followers of the Christian religious doctrines who are deny or not recognize, for whatever reasons, the dogma of the Holy Trinity of three single incarnation of God. Formation and development of domestic Antytrynitary (...) held under the influence of the Western Reformation and local rationalistic movements associated with social and spiritual processes in Ukraine XIV – XX centuries. The specificity of the formation religious organization the Evangelical Christians in the Spirit of the Apostles, his cult and structural features due to a combination of Western and Eastern religious cultury elements in the reformation sociai-cultural context. Among the basic features of this movement is glossary, cross only in the name of Jesus the people who have been baptized in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit in another church, the denial of the dogma of the Holy Trinity, preaching the Antytrynitary doctrine. Basis of doctrine Church of Evangelical Christians in the Spirit of the Apostles based on the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the teachings of the Holy Apostles, that fully reveals the complete and infallible understanding of God and His nature. Current status the Church of Evangelical Christians in the Spirit of the Apostles in Ukraine demonstrates not just an example motivated evangelical ideals and self dogmatic concepts of inscribing into the new realities of social, political, cultural and interfaith life, but also the obvious interest in their deployment and consolidation as a determining factor of its future evolution. Until today, the Church seeks to expand its outside the cult priorities. In public life they are evangelism, philanthropy, education; in politics - the desire for freedom of conscience and cooperation with governmental and non-governmental institutions; in cultural – to promote the spiritual health of society, the development of national culture; in religious – active church life. (shrink)

Unveiled from its latent status of myth, from the dawn of civilization until nowadays mass media culture as a necessary need of power in a world of intrinsic human powerlessness, an existential condition as antithetical to the latter in the very terms of power signifies the grandest possible of human perspectives to inhere within the state of affairs of a Real certainly vast enough to contain it respecting its unfathomable profundity in space and in time. By focusing accordingly on the (...) significance of this term as a leading determination of the Real, and as a most comprehensive category and ontological criterion in respect to which all other possible meanings, both immanent in character and transcendent, are formed and defined, and on its own embodiment in a personified fashion (as until now indistinctly found in Polytheism and in the overhuman myths only), it reveals itself in its dialectically required status of actual ontological human power, and under this form opposes whatever limitation of the hitherto known and considered human. It consequently also redefines the notion of overhuman, which proves to be thus far incomplete ontologically as still bound to an existential context of ontic impotence (Nietzsche). (shrink)