RELIGION IN THE CONTEXT OF CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION
Aim of the research: to creat the image of religion as cultural and civilizational phenomenon. Methods of research: multidisciplinary approach, method of historical and philosophical analysis, hermeneutical method, comparative methodology, methodology of reconstruction of cultural and historical reality, based on the picture of culture as coexistence of unified cultural and historical types, where every element is determined by the system of mental dominants. Results: in the paper it is showed that the creating of cultural and civilizational model of religion is possible in the methodology, which considers culture as the objectification of human existential characteristics, representing the unity of civilization (for self-preservation, security, etc.) and cultural (in beauty, transcendence, etc.) needs. Cultural and civilizational aspects are considered in functioning of the Church, monasticism, monasteries, Christian morality. It is showed, that the civilizational component dominates in the activities of Western European Church and Catholic monasteries, but the cultural component dominates in the activities of the Russian Church and Orthodox Monasteries.
Keywords: religion, church, culture, civilization, morality, human nature
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Issue: 7, 2014
Series of issue: Issue 7
Rubric: PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES IN THE STUDY OF RELIGION
Pages: 68 — 72
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