Review: This article is dedicated to identification of the basic risks of transformation of the cultural memory of Russian in the context of migration challenges. It is demonstrated that the intensification of migration processes and Russia’s turning into an immigration country cause a number of economic, demographic, criminogenic, sociocultural and political challenges. The article analyzes the risks of transformation of Russia’s cultural memory in the situation of migration processes at the communicative constitutional and value levels. The author examines the peculiarities of challenges of hybridization of cultural memory and identity of Russia generated by the migration processes. The possibilities of use of the concept of “hybrid identity” applicable to Russia’s cultural memory are analyzed on the basis of the constructivist interpretation of identity and culture in the works of C. Geertz, R. Brubaker, and J. Straub. The author underlines the important role of the philosophy of culture as the means for theoretical comprehension and development of the model of transformation of the cultural memory of Russia in the context of migration challenges. A conclusion is made that the contradictions generated by the migration processes overlap the incompleteness of transformation of Russia’s cultural identity. The thought is substantiated that the key challenge for Russia’s cultural memory is the hybridization of the forms of identity. At the same time, Russia’s cultural memory itself is not uniform and static. Leaning of the analysis of the major carriers of cultural memory, the author concludes on the dynamic character of its boundaries. The article substantiates the basic worldview milestones and conditions for reaching universal agreement in cultural memory of the migrants and the accepting society.

Keywords: cultural identity, collective memory, riscs of cultural memory, philosophy of culture, memory conflicts, hybrid identity, migration challenges, cultural memory, migrants, integration of migrants

Review: This article is the sequence of publications for approbation of dissertation on the topic “The Nature of Social Reality in the Context of the Modern Forms of Cynicism”. For deriving one of the methodological tools of dynamic approach in explaining the nature of social reality, Max Weber’s theory of social action was selected as the object of this research. The subject of this work implies the typology of cynic action, which manifests as such tool. The research goal consists in: 1) explication of the foundations of typology of social action; 2) analysis of Weber’s project of “purposeful rationality” as the basis of social action; 3) examination of “ideal bureaucracy” as the principle of building a society that allows cynic behavioral models; 4) substantiation of the typology of cynic action. In the course of the study, the author applied such methods of theoretical cognition as analysis, synthesis, deduction, induction and analogy; in conceptualization of the notion of “cynicism” – systemic and qualitative approaches, as well as moderate subjectivism. The author’s contribution is expressed in conceptualization of the typology of cynic actions, which in the course of dynamic examination of the essence of social reality and manifestation of cynicism, allows viewing its modern symbol structures and marker-trends that determine the dynamics of social changes.

Keywords: Desacralization, Interatism, Hypersensitivity, Indifference, Negation, Cynic subject, Cynicism, Social action, Mimicry, Pseudo-rationality

Review: The systematization of theological knowledge is a results of the reception of creedal content of Revelation in historical experience of the Church as a unique institution with a right for legitimate indoctrination, as well as authentic interpretation. The only source of this right is the Revelation itself. Correspondence of the results of such procedures with theological axiomatic is determined primarily by its succession and doctrinal intactness. The article examines the need in formation of the news mission strategies in modern world, which is a definitive motive for interpretation and systematization of the missionary aspects of Revelation. Namely the Revelation defines the method if reception, interpretation and systematization of the genuine content. At the present stage, the actualization of missionary aspects of the Revelation is preceded by a short, but extremely important process of the emergence and development of Orthodox missiology. This process carries an incomplete character, and its relevant results are interval, and this controversial. Therefore, the modern Orthodox missiology is in the stage of intense problematization of its research field and method. The paramount obstacle in development of this process is the ambiguous understanding of the role and theoretical-methodological status of the Orthodox missiology within the system of theological knowledge.

Keywords: Divine Revelation, research program, methodology, academic institutionalization of theology, missiology, religious studies, Theology, explication, missionary service, academic discipline