Images of Divinity in Culture: National Varieties

The book of philosopher, literary critic, culturologist Georgy Dmitrievich Gacheva (1929-2008) - the final labor of the unique series "National Images of the World". The author offers a cultural and heuristic approach to the problem of national, considers each national integrity as a Cosmo-Logos - the unity of the local nature, the nature of the people and its warehouse of thinking. The method of studying national mentality, the method of studying national mentality acquires particular relevance in the era of globalization, when the issue of national and planetary relations, about the place of national entities in the global world, is put on on the agenda. In the book "images of the Divine in Culture, Georgy Gachev appeals to the study of national religious feelings, shows how in cultures of different peoples they are being made about the creators, immortality, the divine world order and the role of human in it. In the orbit of the creative attention of the philosopher - English and German, French and Bulgarian, Jewish and American images of the world, refracted through the prism of faith, Sosmos Islam and Russian religiosity in its reflections in life, literature, culture. For a more complete idea of ​​the range of philosopher reflection over the theme of national religiosity, the application provides a selection of texts from his diaries 1999-2004. The experience of being and thinking under the sign of the faith is revealed to the publication "" add-on in Logos in the creation of God, ... "(From Wheatters 2005-2008)", where the diary records of the last two weeks of life Georgy Gacheva entered. The book is addressed to philosophers, historians, cultivologists, teachers and students, all interested in world history and culture