Why Religious Renaissance Became Possible: Three Mistakes in Western Project’s Foundation

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Why Religious Renaissance Became Possible: Three Mistakes in Western Project’s FoundationWhy Religious Renaissance Became Possible: Three Mistakes in Western Project’s FoundationWhy Religious Renaissance Became Possible: Three Mistakes in Western Project’s Foundation

In the article, authors have made an attempt to find reasons for crisis condition of Western civilization project. In particular, authors discuss the importance of: 1) non-critical absolutization of religious imperatives in secular society; 2) overestimation of European culture’s uniqueness as a civilization model; 3) underestimation of circumstances of the secularization of transcendental in Western semantic universum. Basing on the analysis authors reached conclusions concerning the level of existing risks..

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