No 2 (2008)

The article contains the analysis of Chinese mythological system.

The article reviews the onthological foundations of humanism through the notions of culture, socium and human personality. It describes three unique phenomena of our time: postmodernism, postsovietism and fundamentalism along with their immediate impact on science and educational system.

The article presents the further development of the analysis of the archetypes and universals of the ethno-national mentality. It deals with the motifs connected with the Mother of God in the orthodox culture. The attention is focused on the main characteristics of the Significance of the Mother of God image in Ukrainian architecture, icon-painting, homiletics and belles-lettres. The common character of Ukrainian and Russian spiritual attitudes is shown.

The article considers the problem of self-preservation of ethnic cultures in the age of globalization based on the analogy of self-preservation of Native cultures of Tjumen North.

The article is devoted to the problems of the comprehensibility of the sermon in the Russian and Ukrainian Orthodox tradition of sermonizing. The corresponding opinions of some famous Church activists are under analysis. The problems of the reception of the sermon and of the necessity of making a study of the aesthetic characteristic features of the sermon are touched upon.

The article gives an analysis of existential religious experience of bodiness as it is expressed in conceptions of P.Tillich and G.Bataille.

The article touches upon the problem of social-cultural conditionality of philosophy. The fundamental non-transparency of the philosophical knowledge, which is determined by its existential character, is even more difficult for understanding due to its controversial subjective determination of the Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet professional versions of philosophy. Their opposition to the European traditions, obvious unoriginality, and, as consequence, locking in the frames of isolated problem-subject fields (for instance, "academic" History of philosophy) can't be overcome if choosing confrontation. The way out may constitute philosophical culture formation combining facilities of both philosophical dialogue and metaphysical adventures.

The article analyzes the philosophical theories of outstanding representatives of Marburg school of neokantianism: H.Cohen, P.Natorp, E.Cassirer, N.Hartmann.

Social culture analysis of separate regions which compose the whole of geopolitical space of country, becomes very important at the light of idea of national resurrection, keeping and accumulation for culture possibilities of Russia. That is why actuality of science research grows and working out ethnoregions direction in sociology of culture, which examine base culture value at individuality of its being at different subcultures.