Russian religion and Russian philosophy

CULTURAL HISTORY OF MODERN RUSSIA Religion in Modern Russian History

The essay below, written for the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Modern Russian History, attempts to address the role of religion in Russia over the last three centuries or so. As such, it serves as a useful introduction to at least some of the issues that we will address in this course. The article is notable for its attempt to address all of Russia’s various religions, and thus to set the issu...

On-line Comprehension of Russian Case Cues in Monolingual Russian and Bilingual Russian-Dutch and Russian-Hebrew Children

For a correct interpretation of the thematic roles of constituents of a sentence, the relation between those constituents has to be understood. For each language, a combination of specific interpretation cues leads to a correct understanding of a sentence, and one of the comprehension cues is most reliable. The speed and success rate of children in acquiring those cues most relevant for their l...

Philosophy of Philosophy of Religion

Russian Science and Engineering

The principles of information processing (storing information, associative memory, image recognition) in nonlinear systems with dynamic chaos are studied. The use of complex dynamic regimes in solving certain information problems is shown advantageous with respect to the methods based on simple dynamics. Main results of the study are illustrated by set of models based on one-dimensional maps of...

Russian Culture and Civilization

Russian Culture and Civilization Class 1 What is Culture? Western vs. Russian Approaches to Culture: Observers and Participants Russia has inspired centuries of commentary and analysis by Western travelers and observers; the academic study of Russia began in the late 19th century. Russia was seen as "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." Western researchers are trying to "crack the c...