In fact, this article is not about the scandal around the Punk-Molebne group Pussy Riot in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, but about the role of the sacrilege-both real and imaginary-played in the history of Russian religious culture. It is still worth starting with the political action of the feminist punk group, whose participants were subjected to cruel and unjust persecution for quite obvious political reasons.

Arrogance is the pride of fools. The scientist should be proud that he is not arrogant. Eli Keduri Every grandiose institution is a fruit of good ideas. Unfortunately, over time, institutions often ossify and become enemies of ideas. The pernicious nature of “success” has an ancient genealogy in the history of human experience. It is possible that the Athenian democracy was destroyed by cynical philosophers and selfish military leaders. Ancient Greece selflessly podded both of them.

“Domestic notes”: we were going to make a number about religion, but adjusted their plans: much of what is happening in our society is religious, but formally does not apply to religion. It is enough to recall the activities of Fomenko’s followers, about the general hobby of household magic - fortunetellers and horoscopes. Against this background, there are statements that we have an unprecedented revival of Orthodoxy. Any thinking person understands: something is wrong here.

Print Vasily Kostyrko Pisarevskaya D. B. Subculture of role -playing games in modern society. M.: IEA RAS, 2011. 271 p. In recent years, “Roleviks” - anecdotal people in medieval suits with fake swords, frightening insufficiently informed mushroom pickers in the forests of the Moscow Region and other regions of Russia - are increasingly attracting the attention of professional anthropologists.

Alexandra Kateman [1] Our bread is pressing (From the history of my family) [2] Our Father, even if in heaven! Yes, your name is hooked May your kingdom come May your will be, as in heaven and on the earth. Our daily bread give us now ... When I was still very small, I somehow begged my mother to show me the daily bread, which I knew by prayer. To this end, we went to the bakery.

Print Alexey Semikhatov Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinov. The highest plan. SPb.: Amphora, 2012. 208 p. Opening a new book of acquaintances of the authors, it is impossible not to make forecasts based on previous impressions. My basic hopes for the exciting presentation were fed by the “probabilistic” book of Leonard Mlodinov, read two years ago, and Stephen Hawking “walnut shell” on amazing pictures.

When we conceived this issue, its working title revolved around the concept of “postsecularity.” As we worked on the volume, the word “obscurantism” was heard more and more often, so often that we almost hated it - both for its inaccuracy, and for its intense emotional overtones, and for the fact that today it has become practically part of party jargon. We ended up calling the magazine The Decline of Rationality.

Print Dmitry Uzlaner It is difficult to say when in the scientific and socio-political literature the concept of “post-consumer” was first used. It can only be argued that already in the 90s of the XX century it begins to flicker in research works devoted to criticism of modern practice and the theory of secularism [1] .

The religiosity of the Russian population in recent decades at different stages has changed differently. Such stages, it seems to us, can be distinguished by four. The first: since 1989 (when mass surveys began to be conducted), in the mid-1990s-its own is sometimes called a “religious boom”. During these years, the number of believers, more precisely those who call themselves Orthodox, has almost doubled: from 20-30 % in 1988-1989 before 50-60 % by 1995.

ISSUE NO. 1 (52). 2013 - CRISIS OF RATIONALITY EDITORIAL NOTE Initially this issue, Crisis of Rationality, was supposed to exclusively feature religion, which is why religion occupies a substantial place in it. the demand for the supernatural does not dwindle, yet the oncoming process of rationalization of our world also keeps growing quite actively.

Print Konstantin Bannikov In modern Russian journalism, as well as on the pages of analytical publications, not to mention the sites of the Russian -language sector of the Internet, one of the most burning topics of the last year was the topic of archaizing all spheres of public life - from law enforcement to church.

Monster, mischievous, huge Stosevo and barking. Telemachide, vol. II, book. XVIII, verse 514 (Epigraph to the book of A. Radishchev "Travel from St. Petersburg to Moscow") The theme of the “New Middle Ages” was one of the first to be raised by Novalis in 1799 in the work “Christianity or Europe” [1] in line with the romantic criticism of the Enlightenment project.

The protest behavior of the voter of the late Stalin era Print Anna Kimerling “Who spoils the Bullets, He in the union dissatisfied ” [1] There were very few disagreements in the post -war elections, literally a few. In party reports, they are listed by name or, when their names are unknown, are represented by interest on the verge of statistical error.

Shnirelman V.A. Russian Rodrosty: Neoism and Nationalism in modern Russia. M.: BBI Publishing House, 2012. 302 p. For those who have not yet heard anything about the crocodile, the main of the ancient deities of Northern Rus', or about the original Slavic-Aryan population of Palestine, the book of Victor Schnirelman will serve as an excellent guide to the full miracles of the Universe of Russian Neo-Salaism.

And my eyes aren't dark? .. The darkest ... How not dark when I guess It is always to yourself on a trefoil lady. N.V. Gogol, "Examiner" There was a Young Lady Named Bright Who Travelled Much Faster than Light. She Started One Day In a Relative Way And Returned On the Previous Night. Edward Lear This is not me, this is my brain. Such, it seems, is the answer of the twenty -first century to the question of the nineteenth.