Referring to the work by Louise Revell, a lecturer in Roman History at the University of Southampton, the author examines the peculiarities of interpretation of Roman imperialism, and issues of cultural and political identity in the 1st–2nd Century A...
The article explores the multiple realizations of Taoist philosophy in A. Varlamov’s short story Shanghai.The author maintains that Chinese philosophy has a considerable influence on contemporary Russian writersand is a major approach aimed to solve ...
The article describes one of the most important events in the cultural life of Byzantium under Justinian I, namely, the closure of the pagan school of philosophy in Athens in 529 AD. Referring to legal sources, the author concludes that Justinian’s l...
From the point of view of philosophy, the article considers the “bird’s name” (Gogol) and the bird “code” of the symbolism and mythical poetics of Gogol’s Dead Souls. More particularly, the author draws parallels between the folkloric Creation of the...
The article focuses on Russian religious non-conformists (Baptists and Evangelical Christians) from the late 19th century until 1929. The research is based on the analysis of various historical, archival, and personal sources, as well as oral and pri...
Within sociology of religion, the debate in regards to the way in which religion should be defined has followed a quite consistent course. The thing such discussions have in common has been -historically and internationally- the possibility of agreei...
The "awakening" of the indigenous people of Latin America raises the following question: is it accom- panied by a religious revitalization and a return to an- cestral beliefs and rituals? Religion is, indeed, present in protests and visible movements...
Mass media technological advancement and the new network economy have allowed new uses and notions of culture in relation to space and time perception. This transformation is not unfamiliar to religion, a phenomenon that currently tends to be less an...
This article engages the interface of religion and globalization through the concept of globalizing modernity. An introductory section offers an overview of recent treatments of religion and globalization and identifies a number of key themes prevale...
This paper argues for an interdisciplinary interlocution between social theory and social philosophy in order to recast the problem of normativity in social practices, especially within Brazil's democratic ethos. By resorting to insights from critica...
