The aim of the work is to rethink the sacred functions of shamans with an emphasis on the social functions that shamans/ritualists performed in primitive and then traditional societies, and not only on the mystical content of early forms of religious ideas described by ethnologists and art historians. The article implements a theoretical transfer of the postulates of biopolitics (M. Foucault,...
The study reconstructs the categorical core of Jacques Waardenburg’s neo‑phenomenology of religion through an analysis of the relation between objective religious facts and subjective meanings. The article examines the concepts of religious fact, subjective meaning, intentionality, the supposed/posited object, faith, context, understanding, and the verification of interpretation, as well as...
The research aims to identify the attitude toward rationality in Fritz Mauthner’s agnostic mysticism. The article examines the problem of the boundaries of rationality in Mauthner’s works within the context of 19th-20th-century philosophical thought. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that it is the first to analyze Fritz Mauthner’s agnostic mysticism as a distinct direction...