Demons and Heretics in Transitional Culture: Historical-Literary and Attitudinal Contexts in a Research Perspective

The actualization of the study irrational in interpretation man and communication with society late twentieth early twenty-first centuries can be explained by modern ideas about limitless incognizability phenomenon life. Rational knowledge is accompanied exceptional significance belief influence otherworldliness for certain periods history when totality conflicts, clashes, features people’s behavior through an appeal to images demonic properties. Historians, philologists, theologians from various Russian academic centers discuss representation “otherworldliness” prospects its study. panelists studies functional properties spheres life art manifestation genres oral written literature. Finally, they put forward further directions scholarly research sphere.