Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия
November 20, 2025
Ivan Deviatko
This article explores the productive intersection between analytic theology and analytic philosophy of mind through the lens of Brandon Rickabaugh and J. P. Moreland’s 2024 monograph The Substance of Consciousness. Its aim is to show that the soul hypothesis is anything but an anachronism; rather, it opens research avenues capable of revitalising theories of consciousness while enriching...
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия
December 21, 2024
Pavel Nosachev
The article reconstructs the concept of J. Strube, a leading representative of the younger generation of esotericism researchers. In the first part of the article, his critical program is analyzed, it is established that he systematically deconstructed the existing ideas about Western esotericism with the help of a large source base. Starting with the demythologization of the story of the...
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия
March 8, 2023
Pavel Nosachev
The article presents an overview of the development of research on Western esotericism in the works of the younger generation of scientists in 2010-2021, the works of E. Asprem, Y. Strube, L. Saif are primarily distinguished. At the beginning, a general outline of the current state of esotericism research is given, then the analysis of the attitude of the younger generation to the works of the...
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия
November 8, 2019
Victoria Tikhonova
This article presents results of an analysis of the religious identifi cation of Russians practising transcendental meditation and united on this basis in a broad community that can serve as an example of a new type of multireligious movement, since the religiosity of its participants is diverse. The article discusses the grouping of the sample of representatives of the movement into seven...
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия
November 8, 2019
Tatiana Rezvykh
This article deals with main elements of the system of personalism developed by the German and American psychologist V. Stern. This system is practically unknown in Russia. Stern’s conception is described in the context of teleological worldview which was developing at the beginning of the 20th century. The article discusses Stern’s criticism of the preceding personalism and impersonalism and...
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия
April 10, 2019
Nikolay Muskhelishvili, Andrey Antonenko
This paper examines the relationship between the E. Husserl’s theory of noema and N. L. Muskhelishivili’s and Yu. A. Schreider’s concept of the organising image (image-sprout) which was proposed in the paper “Meaning of Text as an Inner Image”. The purpose of this study is to demonstrate isomorphism of these two concepts. It can serve as a methodological and ideological basis for combining...
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия
May 13, 2018
Nosachev Pavel
The paper deals with the history of the “sociology of the occult”. It examines main stages of its development exemplified by works of C. Campbell, E. Tiryakian, M. Truzzi, J. Webb. The latest expression of ideas of this school is the theory of occulture proposed by the British religious scholar and researcher of culture C. Partridge. Partridge has combined the achievements of sociology of the...
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия
May 11, 2018
Victoria Tikhonova
One of the most important tasks of present-day religious studies is developing a united and detailed systematisation of new religious movements. With the aim of fi nding out what place the Transcendental Meditation movement could occupy in it, this article considers various characteristics of the theory, practice and social peculiarities of this movement, off ered by researchers of new...
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия
May 11, 2018
Natalia Vaganova
The initial lines of The Pillar and Ground of the Truth (Rus. Столп и утверждение Истины) in the renowned defi nition of “living religious experience as the only legitimate means of comprehending the dogma” prescribe that philosophical refl ection and theological speculation should always proceed following living life. The latter is considered in the person-oriented aspect as a spiritual...
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия
January 9, 2018
K. Antonov
1 citation
The article examines the role which a discussion around the book of the American philosopher and psychologist W. James «The Varieties of Religious Experience» played in the development of the Russian philosophy and psychology of religion. The author carries out an analytical review of the Russian reception of James’s philosophy and psychology of religion inasmuch as they are connected with the...
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия
September 2, 2017
Nosachev Pavel
Interdisciplinary studies have long become an integral part of modern science, but in the field of religious studies and studies in Western esotericism, they are still not sufficiently widespread. In the article, well-known methodology of the study of a cultural product, developed by the Birmingham school of cultural studies is applied to the Western esotericism. The object of study is in the...