State-religious relations in modern Russian society

State-Society Relations Beyond the Weberian State

Hatred as a Moral and Ethical Conception in Russian Society

The present paper deals with the national specifics of the assessment aspect in the meaning of the words. A modern scientific paradigm considers the language as a cognitive tool of understanding the world and keeping and representing people’s experience and values which reflect the people’s vision of the world (“the world picture). Usually linguistics understands the language ...

Nikolay P. Grintser (Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow) STRUCTURALIZING CLASSICS: MODERN TRENDS IN RUSSIAN

Classical philology is duly considered to be, probably, the most conservative discipline of the humanities. Russian classical philology, historically heavily dependent on German Altertumswissenschaft, must be the most radical specimen of this conservatism. Its fate in the time of economical and political changes, when humanities presumably should be not even in the second, or third, but on the ...

Acupuncture in modern society.

For at least 2,500 years, acupuncture has been an integral part of traditional Chinese medicine. However, recently as more people in western countries are diagnosed with chronic disease poorly treated with modern medical therapies, many are turning to acupuncture and other forms of alternative medical treatments. Based on the theory of harmonious flowing qi being the basis of good health, acupu...

CULTURAL HISTORY OF MODERN RUSSIA Religion in Modern Russian History

The essay below, written for the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Modern Russian History, attempts to address the role of religion in Russia over the last three centuries or so. As such, it serves as a useful introduction to at least some of the issues that we will address in this course. The article is notable for its attempt to address all of Russia’s various religions, and thus to set the issu...