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Basics of religious cosmology

ВБ 2.2

Вибіркова дисципліна для ОП

Second

2023/2024

3 Semester

4

Organize and plan religious research in accordance with its object and subject, goals and tasks. Conduct interdisciplinary research using the conceptual and categorical apparatus of religious studies, the latest scientific methods and approaches to characterize religious processes in different regions of the world.

Full-time form

1. Before starting this course, students should know the basic concepts of philosophy, have a philosophical categorical apparatus; to have an idea of the main features of dogmatics and worship of world religions, their historical evolution and current state. 2. To be able to collect and interpret information about cultural phenomena and phenomena, religious processes and events; apply basic terms and categories from religious studies in the analysis of worldview problems and socio-cultural phenomena and processes; operate with objective knowledge of history and cultural history. 3. Possess elementary skills of scientific research and information management; critical attitude and forecasting regarding religious, political, economic events and phenomena; use of foreign language professional informative sources.

The discipline "Fundamentals of religious cosmology" introduces students to ideas about the origin of the universe in the form of a creation myth, about further evolution, the modern world and nature, as well as about its possible fate or destination. The program's lecture course focuses on the interpretation of various traditions in religion or religious mythology that state how and why things are the way they are, and what the meaning of it all is. The difference between cosmology and theology, as well as religious cosmology and scientific cosmology, based on the results of the study of astronomy and similar fields, which differ in conceptual ideas about the physical structure of the world and its place in the universe, its creation, as well as forecasts or predictions about its future, is analyzed. An overview of the various variations of religious cosmology is given, including those of Indian origin, such as Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism; religious beliefs of China; as well as the beliefs of Abrahamic faiths such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Religious cosmologies that were transformed into the formal logic of metaphysical systems, such as Platonism, Neoplatonism, Gnosticism, Taoism, Kabbalah, etc., are analyzed.

1. Lubsky V., Lubska M. History of world religions. - K.: Publishing House "Center for Educational Literature", 2022. 2. V. Lukyanets. Cosmology // Philosophical encyclopedic dictionary / V. I. Shinkaruk (chief editor) and others. - Kyiv: Hryhoriy Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Abrys, 2002. 3. Melnyk A.I. To the history of God's creation of man [Archived March 24, 2022 at the Wayback Machine.] // Historical religious studies. - Ostrog: Publishing House of the National University "Ostroz Academy", 2012. - pp. 163-175.

Lectures, seminars, self-study

Final evaluation in the form of an exam

Ukrainian