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The authors of the article set themselves a goal to think over the influence of hermeneutic tradition and conceptual idea of discourse in the works of European thinkers of XIX-XX centuries on appearance of communicative issues in philosophy. Philosophical idea till ?? century stated the problem of understanding as a necessary factor of cognitive human activity, as an existence factor. On the base of the theory of communicative activity and communicative rationality the authors make the attempt to ground a wider ap...

The article deals with the transformation of the Orthodox pilgrimage tradition in the global information society. The new civilizational factors such as the formalization of the virtual space, the development of informative forms of activity (for example, tourism), the formation of a new type of religiousness (new or postmodern), etc. lead to radical changes in religious practices and ritual activities. In the contemporary society pilgrimageis considered through religious tourism along with excursional tourism of ...

The article is focused on the analysis of views of Russian youth on religion, religious values, and The Russian Orthodox Church. The survey of value orientations of the youth in one of the largest regions of Russia (Nizhny Novgorod Region) became the source of the empirical material of the research. This region is considered to be a federal indicator of many socio-economic indexes including religious and confessional ones. The data and information about religious views of the younger generation were collected with...

The article is devoted to the discussion of the phenomenon of the culture of understanding within the framework of social communication, the established tendencies of the interpretation of the two-way nature of the culture of understanding are analysed. The culture of understanding, being the condition and the result of social communication, contributes to both the regulation of peopleВ’s social behaviour and the structuring of the communicative space with the aim of reaching public agreement and mutual understand...