There are hypotheses in the history of human culture and civilization in which we can find undeniable similarities and commonalities among them, despite their vastly different cultural and historical contexts. For example, finding commonalities between the language of two artistic aesthetic hypotheses, Sufism and Surrealism, which are very different from each other in terms of context, time as ...

The ultimate aim of this chapter is to suggest if not demonstrate, first, that much of the current received understanding of globalization is the product of a larger cosmological transformation of Western modernity and second, that this transformation can only be properly understood from a global systemic perspective. This latter perspective has significant implications for the way anthropology...

This article realized the Russian way of theological media education literacy and hermeneutic analysis of specific examples of Soviet anti-religious audiovisual media texts: a study of the process of interpretation of these media texts, cultural and historical factors influencing the views of the media agency / authors. The hermeneutic analysis suggests media text comprehension through comparis...

In this paper, a novel definition of Context is presented along with its usage in a Mobile application for Cultural Heritage (CH). The proposed approach is pragmatic and takes care of practical issues that need to be addressed when an implementation has to be built. Examples are shown of how the context is used for three different purposes: context-aware media retrieval, user orienteering and s...

In this chapter I try to provide a systematic overview of various aspects of cultural theories – as they have developed in different disciplines and cultures. A variety of cultural theories have dealt with the phenomenon of culture from different epistemological and historical perspectives. The article discusses definitions of concepts of culture in a comparative analysis, as they have develope...