Church and secular society: risks and prospects of dialogue [PDF]
This article analyzes the current state of the church-public dialogue. The reasons for decline in public trust in the Russian Orthodox Church, fixed on the basis of sociological data, are revealed. Methodological remarks of sociological dimension of the
Orlov Mikhail O., Petrova Kristina Yu.
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Organised freethinking in Russia in large cities (with Moscow and St. Petersburg as examples) [PDF]
Our paper aims to present a comprehensive study of the present-day freethinkers in Moscow and St Petersburg. By means of a questionnaire-based survey (N=669), we analyse social and political attitudes and features of freethinkers’ worldview.
Ekaterina Korostichenko +1 more
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Criticism of positive theistic arguments in the polemic of theism and atheism [PDF]
In the article the author analyzes the arguments of the theist W.L. Craig for the existence of the omnipotent, all-good, timeless God of classical theism as well as counter-arguments of W. Sinnot-Armstrong. W.L.
Valeriya Sleptsova
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The main trends in the study of orthodoxy in the academic periodicals of the Ukrainian SSR of the second half of the 1980s [PDF]
The present research focuses on the analysis of the main trends and approaches to understanding the role of Orthodoxy in the historical past, state and public life, which developed and were formed by the scientific and public intelligentsia of the ...
Ruslan Savchuk
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Jonathan Edwards on the proofs of the existence of God [PDF]
: This article analyzes the proofs for the existence of God offered by Jonathan Edwards. The notes known as "Miscellanies" as well as several other documents are the subject of the analysis.
Evgeny Loginov
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Thinking of a human in the context of the memetic theory of religion: from the “image and likeness” to the “vehicle” [PDF]
The article is devoted to the study of the idea of a human in the context of the modern memetic theory of religion. The work consistently reveals the main provisions of the memetic concept in the works of Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett and Susan ...
Ekaterina Khitruk
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Christian view on treating animals: theological criticism of P. Singer [PDF]
P. Singer is called one of the most influential living philosophers in the world, and one of the most controversial. The author of "Animal Liberation", "Practical Ethics", "Famine, Affluence, and Morality" created his own project of preference ...
Ekaterina Korostichenko
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How the monopoly of “scientific atheism” in Soviet social science was ruined [PDF]
As an integral part of Marxism-Leninism, scientific atheism was being protected from criticism with the help of an information blockade. Teaching its basics (from 1959) in higher education institutions formed such a theoretical attitude to religion ...
Boris Filippov
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Professor-archpriest Pavel Svetlov on the “atheistic humanism” as the “religion of deified man” (based on archival materials and publications of 1914–1917) [PDF]
Archpriest Pavel Svetlov (1861–1941) is the most prominent representative of Orthodox apologetics in the late 19th — early 20th centuries. He was professor at the University of St. Vladimir in Kiev, a distinguished theologian and essay writer, the author
German Bokov
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«Разумеется, я еврей, но я советский еврей»: множественная идентичность в воспоминаниях
Рассматривается тема множественной идентичности через сосуществование советской (вненациональной, гражданской) и этнической идентичностей на примере евреев в СССР.
Vera Kliueva
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