T. Zinkevich. "The ideas of civil religion in the works of Mykola Kostomarov." The author based on the fact that a civil religion - it is a social and cultural phenomenon in which the light of a kind of religious language and the specific practices of the necessity of finding and approval of the national state, which has its roots in the community needs to find the sacred in the work, which is inherent in the transcendent, eternally linear in nature (...) and which is rooted in the history of the territory. According to N. Kostomarov, the main provisions of national faith as follows: God is one, He is the creator of all things, the seat of comfort and happiness, belief in which is the key statements in the freedom society, equality, and fraternity; social ideals of Ukrainians, which is the expression of Christian Cossack republic and the social doctrine of the early, truthful Christianity coincide; Ukraine, in contrast to other ethnic groups, is a carrier and protector of the true social and Christian values, which makes it possible immortality Ukrainians, his primacy in the social liberation and unification of the Slavic community, in which Ukraine will take place eludes Rzeczpospolita. (shrink)

Modern globalization processes, which take Ukraine into its own circle, the peculiarity of socio-cultural shifts in our country, are an impetus both to the emergence of new problems in the socio-spiritual and socio-political life of society, and to their scientific, philosophical understanding. One of the issues that are increasingly beginning to bother the public and circles of scholars is the civil religion. This phenomenon is extremely complex, and perhaps that is why it is highly ambiguous among scientists and the general (...) public. Some view civic religion as a rejection of the values ​​of the "traditional religion", while others view it as an attempt to "Americanize" our society. Instead, one sees in it one of the conditions of uniting a nation and maintaining civil peace. Meanwhile, the idea of ​​civic religion we find in the Constitution of Ukraine. (shrink)

In the article T.Zinkevich "Beginnings and the essence of civil religion" the question of the beginnings of civil religion and the peculiarity of this phenomenon are studied. It is proved that civil religion is a socio-cultural phenomenon, in which, through the prism of a peculiar religious language and specific practices, the ultimate determination of the establishment and confirmation of a national state, which originates from the need of the community to find sacred in a transcendental, eternally linear, grounded in history (...) territories, rank. (shrink)

In the article "Сivil religion in the light of a comparative analysis" by T. Zinkevych civil religion is seen as a social and cultural phenomenon in which the light of a kind of religious language and the specific practices of the necessity of origin and the approval of the national state, which has its roots in the community needs to find a sacred transcendental eternity-linear action that is rooted in the history of the area. Substantiated the thesis of the non-identity (...) concept of civil religion concepts of folk religion, ethnic religion, popular Christianity, and others. (shrink)