Teresa Obolevitch, Paweł Rojek (eds) Religion and Culture in Russian Thought. Philosophical, Theological and Literary Perspectives Kraków: The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Kraków 2014, pp. 190, ISBN 978-83-7438-380-6. The book is available at the Digital Library of The Pontifical University of John Paul II. It might be also purchased at The Pontifical University of John Paul II Press.

This collection of essays […] might become an excellent foundation for future investigations uniting scholars from different countries.
Prof. Vladimir Porus, Higher School of Economics, Moscow

It must be stressed that the international and interdisciplinary character of the project enables one to see the investigated problem from many different – in some cases vastly different – perspectives.
Prof. Leszek Augustyn, Jagiellonian University, Kraków

Review

• Татьяна В. Чумакова, Religion and Culture in Russian Thought, „Вестник Санкт-Петербургского государственного университета. Серия 17” 2015, nr 1, s. 191–192 (in Russian).

Contents

• Teresa Obolevitch, Paweł Rojek, Religion, Culture and Post-Secular Reason. The Contemporary Significance of Russian Thought.

Philosophical Perspectives

• Lenka Naldoniova, The Meaning of Love in V. Solovyov and P. Florensky,
• Anna Volkova, “In Wisdom Hast Thou Made Them All:” The Concept of Culture in Sergius Bulgakov’s Articles,
• Lilianna Kiejzik, Sergei Bulgakov and Alexander Elchaninov, Reflections on Real Friendship,
• Vladimir Konev, The Anthropological Project of S. L. Frank,
• Elena Mareeva, Lev Shestov: Between Scripture and Nietzscheanism,
• Zlatica Plašienkova, Disputes over the Noetic and Ethical-Religious Concepts of N. O. Lossky in the 1940’s in Slovakia,
• Paul Such, Vladimir Lossky’s Understanding of the Image of God and its Possible Consequences for a Concept of Person,
• Elena Konstantinova, The Problem of the Creation of a New Culture in Russian Scholars’ Works during the 1920–1930’s (A. Meyer, A. Gorsky, N. Setnitsky, M. Prishvin).

Theological Perspectives

• Nataliya Velikotskaya (Mozgunova), Russian Religious Philosophy and “the Case of Patriarch Nikon”,
• Archpriest Pavel Khondzinsky, Yuri F. Samarin as a Commentator on the Theological Works of Alexei S. Khomiakov,
• Ekaterina Trokhimchuk, Homo Liturgus and Homo Religiosus: Philosophical Parallels Between the Theoretical Positions of P. Florensky and M. Eliade,
• Dmitrii Gusev, Eschatology and the Religious Meaning of Culture in Russian Philosophy of the 20th Century,
• Olga Zaprometova, The Torah Lost and Regained: Contemporary Russian Thought in Search of its Biblical Roots.

Literary Perspectives

• Tatiana Chumakova, Anthropological Ideas of Old Russian Culture,
• Dmytro Gorbachuk, The Interference of Christian and Heathen Ceremonies in the Business Documentation of Kievan Rus and Traditional Ukrainian Culture,
• Natalia Bedina, Russian Literature in the Context of the Medieval Hesychast Tradition (In the Case of the Story On the Edge of The World by N. S. Leskov),
• Konstantin Barsht, Dostoyevsky’s Pochvennichestvo as the Outcome of His Characters’ Ontological Self-Identification (The Possessed, The Brothers Karamazov),
• Victoria Pomel’nikova, V. F. Bulgakov’s Tolstoyism as a Сultural Project (Emigration Period),
• Kateryna Rassudina, The Love Poetry of Marina Tsvetaeva in Light of Dietrich von Hildebrandt’s Metaphysics of Love,
• Ina Nalivaika, “Free Theurgy” Versus “Art For Art’s Sake”?
• Anna Godiner, Evangelical Motifs in Children’s Fiction on the Integrative Methodology for Adult Christian Reading of Children’s Books.