Crisis Of Modernity Research Articles

The Influence of Buddhism on the Traditional Rituals of the Buryats of the Eastern Sayan Region

The article, based on field materials, examines the transformation of the worldview of the Buryats of the Eastern Sayan region under the influence of Buddhism. The relevance of the study comes from the need to clarify the value matrices of the traditional society of this region nowadays. The purpose of the study is to identify the key features of the interaction of traditional rituals with later beliefs among the bearers of these values. To achieve this goal, it was necessary to solve several problems: modern scientific ideas about the influence of Buddhism on traditional beliefs were systematized; the specific relationships of Buddhism, traditional shamanism and beliefs are highlighted; the dominant values of Buddhism reinterpreting the heritage of religious practices combined with it are clarified. Further, based on the analysis of field research, the most significant differences in the interpretations of such reinterpreted values were revealed, distinguishing them from traditional Buddhism. Using examples of existing customs, the modern development of the process of integration of the Buddhist worldview into the already existing ritual culture of the Sayan Buryats is traced. The research methodology includes comparative historical and religious studies and hermeneutical approaches. The field study used the method of interview. As a result, the role of Buddhism was confirmed as a way of adaptively rethinking the heritage of traditional culture in light of the modern crisis of values, associated, among other things, with the forgetting of traditions, consumer attitudes towards the environment, nature, society and even loved ones. Turning to Buddhism in the Eastern Sayan region today, as in the past, is becoming one of the ways to overcome such negative phenomena. Buddhism in the region not only absorbed beliefs that existed at different stages of the history of ethnic Buryatia, but also adapted them to its religious practice. A Buddhist worldview of this type corresponds to the concepts of vernacular religion accepted in modern religious studies. Forming a syncretical holistic picture of the world that corresponds to local conditions and the historical period, vernacular Buddhism defines a wide range of existing values that ideologically and practically incorporate the ritual culture that has developed over centuries.

Redefinition and Interpretation of “Religiosity” Based on the Reflection of Buddha Nature

Nowadays, scholars expect to measure religiosity in different ways, but these measurements run counter to the purpose for which “religiosity” was originally coined, which was to be highlighted and differentiated from “religion” under the “the crisis of modernity of religion”; so, this important concept should be redefined. However, the redefinition and analysis of religiosity needs to include the contribution of religious studies, thus correcting the bias of sociology of religion towards sociology, as well as the reflection on pluralism of religions. Among them, thinking about Buddha nature can provide a valuable reference for the redefining of “religiosity”. First of all, the discussion of Buddha nature can provide a philosophical and value-level supplement to the understanding of “religiosity”, making the originally flattened empirical interpretation three-dimensional; secondly, the reflection on Buddha nature influenced by Chinese culture can provide oriental wisdom for the definition of religiosity. For example, Chineseized Buddhist thought incorporates the traditional Chinese understanding of human nature. On the basis of the discussion of Buddha nature, it can be seen that “religiosity” has different emphases in different religions, but there are still areas of consistency under these different understandings and expressions. Thus, the redefinition of “religiosity” should both reflect these consistencies and address the reasons for the inconsistencies through a hierarchical division. Since the redefinition of “religiosity” is not only conducive to inter-religious dialogue, but also relates to the answer to a series of important questions, such as the prediction of the future of religions, its meaning needs to be updated in accordance with the changes in the times.

КОНКУРЕНТОСПОСОБНОСТЬ ПРЕДПРИЯТИЯ, КАК ИНСТРУМЕНТ ПОВЫШЕНИЯ ЭФФЕКТИВНОСТИ ЕГО ФУНКЦИОНИРОВАНИЯ

The article considers applied research on the analysis of the competitiveness of a par-ticular enterprise in the field of manufacture and sale of sanitary equipment in modern crisis conditions. The authors analyzed the company's activities, on the basis of SWOT and PEST analyses, identified the strengths and weaknesses of the enterprise, identified its main competitors, pointed out the possi-bility of import substitution of products, iden-tified the problems faced by enterprises in modern conditions. All this made it possible to develop recommendations for improving the competitiveness of the company and recommend them to the management of the enterprise.

Проекты цифровой трансформации компаний как составляющая антикризисного управления

The process of digitalization, that has already affected the entire world economy, is changing business models and the competitive environment. Therefore, these days, the system of crisis management should take this trend into account. Digital transformation projects, that are now actively implemented by companies from a variety of industries, have an anti-crisis nature, and business strategies are actively implementing a wide range of digital solutions. The authors of this article analyze the phenomenon of enterprises digital transformation, highlight the main challenges for its projects’ management and emphasize the importance of a conscious approach to the application of this tool. The article allocates the features of the modern crisis management system with the use of digital technologies and highlights the trends in digital business strategies. The authors analyze Tesla, Sber, Tinkoff and General Electrics business practices. In conclusion, the authors emphasize the special role of psychological readiness in a new technologies’ usage, the importance of following a clear algorithm, considering the specifics of the enterprise and providing flexibility when managing digital transformation projects as a part of crisis management.

Book Review: Theories of Doctrinal Development in the Catholic Church The Bible and the Crisis of Modernism

Book Review: Theories of Doctrinal Development in the Catholic Church The Bible and the Crisis of Modernism

A Standing Invitation to the Gods: Philosophy of Religion and the Phenomenology of the Sacred

Does philosophy of religion, specifically, have anything to contribute to the cultural debate about the modern crisis of meaning, and particularly to attempts at retrieving a sense of enchantment beyond human construction? Suggesting a methodological rapprochement between philosophy of religion and phenomenology, I explore a recent popular attempt to reenchant the world through a retrieval of the sacred: All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age (2011) by Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly. Using their work as a foil, I discuss the relation between phenomenology and metaphysics in the experience of the sacred, specifically the possibility of a pluralism that is nonetheless realist; the necessity of social embeddedness and pedagogy in the constitution of sacred meaning; and finally, the problem of moral discrimination within this sphere. Through this critical discussion a constructive argument emerges: philosophy of religion done in a phenomenological mode has resources to address these difficult issues, and thus to explore experiences of the sacred in ways that are metaphysically sophisticated, attentive to historical tradition and pedagogy in the constitution of meaning, as well as to the need of communal moral deliberation in the sphere of the sacred.

Modern existential crisis and new final values

ABSTRACT Why does the ruling class in all countries of the world today act so weirdly and sometimes irresponsibly? Maybe because they are all bored. They don’t know what to do with themselves, or even what to do with their power. The deepest cause of the modern crisis is the lack of new ideas. First of all, ideas that justify your life and death. These ideas are called meanings of life, final values, final goals, final goods, human life's ends, reasons to live, etc. Philosophers and psychologists pick out from five to twenty known final values that cannot be reduced to one another. The existing final values are not but the final values system itself is outdated and has not been updated for a long time. To get out of the existential crisis, we need to look for new final values. New final values mean new ethical standards, new philosophies, new religions, new ideologies, new social institutions, etc. The more final values we know, the richer our culture is, the freer we are and the more expanded (more flexible, sophisticated, etc.) our consciousness is.

Current problems and prospects of improving anti–crisis management

An important part of effective crisis management, along with early diagnosis, crisis prevention and bringing the organization out of a crisis state, is the use of risk factors for subsequent development, that is, the improvement of crisis management. Competent crisis management takes into account the characteristics of past crises, thanks to which strategies and approaches to management are gradually improved. It is important to continually analyze crisis management issues to help identify areas for potential process improvement. This is especially true for organizations seeking long–term sustainability and success in complex and constantly changing market conditions.The subject of research in the article is the problems and prospects for improving crisis management. The study examines current problems and challenges faced by modern crisis management, and highlights prospects for its improvement. The author analyzed the issues and factors influencing the effectiveness of crisis management, systematized current problems of crisis management, noted prospects for its development, most of which are aimed at integrating new technologies, transition to flexible mechanisms for responding to changes in the external environment, in–depth understanding of global risks and special attention to proactive measures to prevent crises.

Unveiling the evolution of ecological crisis concepts: From origins to current perspectives

The concept of ecological crises has evolved significantly over time, reflecting changing interactions between society and nature. Historically, various stages of environmental impact have shaped our understanding of ecological crises, from early human activities to modern industrialization. This study aims to analyze the theoretical sources related to the emergence and development of ecological crisis concepts. It explores the periodicity of significant stages in the interaction between human societies and natural ecosystems and examines the reasons behind these crises. The research involved a comprehensive review of theoretical literature and historical records on ecological crises. The analysis focused on identifying key stages in the evolution of ecological crisis concepts and their implications for both natural ecosystems and human societies. The study reveals a pattern of increasing disruption in ecosystems due to human economic activities and resource exploitation. It highlights how past crises differ from contemporary ones in scope and impact, with modern crises being characterized by more profound global environmental degradation. The findings underscore the need for a complete assessment of ecological crisis reasons to better understand their origins and impacts.

После неолиберализма и его провала: ноономика как возможность

The 2008 global financial crash and its ongoing spiraling consequences mark the failure of neoliberalism as a strategy of exit from the crisis following the collapse of the post-World War II international Bretton Woods Keynesian framework. Technological progress per se cannot solve the strategic impasse as the problems in productivity growth demonstrate. Modernization itself has to overcome the obstacles posed by a fundamental crisis of late modernity in the epoch of advanced capitalist decline noonomy provides an open field of research of the relations between scientific-technological progress and political economy in the 21st century. It focus on the progress of integration of science into a cognition based social production without exploitation. A comparative study with the ‘General Intellect” concept advanced by Karl Marx in Grundrisse and the related debates on this topic during the last decades could be fruitful. In this context, noonomy provides new insights and possibilities for a re-elaboration of a socialist strategy of exit from the global crisis.

Competências e o Currículo do Ensino Médio: diálogos com Hannah Arendt

ABSTRACT This article problematizes the terms competencies and skills present in the curricular regulations for high school, in articulation with the thought of Hannah Arendt in her essay The Crisis in Education. It adopts the document analysis of the National Curriculum Guidelines for High School (1998; 2012), the National Curriculum Parameters for High School and the National Common Curricular Base for High School (2018). It uses the IRAMUTEQ software to aid the analysis. The results point to the prevalence of private interests over the common good, aimed at the immediate insertion of young people in the labor market and towards a conception of citizenship that is close to market ideals. It is concluded that the strong presence of these competencies reflects the crisis of modernity in education, revealing the immediatist character arising from contemporary presentism.

ОСОБЕННОСТИ РАССМОТРЕНИЯ ФИНАНСОВОЙ СИСТЕМЫ ГОСУДАРСТВА: ОРГАНИЗАЦИОННЫЙ И ПРАВОВОЙ АСПЕКТЫ

The article considers a number of organizational and legal aspects of the financial system of the state. The first group includes and disclosed five main components: corporate finance, investments, financial institutions, international finance, financial technology, as well as two basic functions - the accumulation and subsequent distribution of financial resources through specialized funds of funds and control over both the targeted spending of budget funds and the activities of subjects of financial legal relations. It was concluded that legal regulation in modern crisis conditions serves specific purposes, and the legislative framework strongly affects the issues of countering exogenous pressure on the domestic economy from unfriendly states.

A Practical Paradigm Shift in Human Resource Management

Objective: The paradigm shift taking place in the science of human resource management has resulted in numerous changes in the theory. This process was significantly accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. This study shows how new knowledge appears in everyday practice in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (Austria, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia). Research Design & Methods: Statistical processing of the data collected in a questionnaire survey shows how conservative crisis management is complemented by measures based on the new approaches organisations are using. In addition to the comparison between individual countries, the study also focuses on the size of the company as a factor determining crisis management decisions. It also examines the validity of general principles such as equal opportunity and difference management, both of which are people-centric principles. Findings: The results of the survey show that the companies already understand modern theoretical knowledge. Despite this, among the practical measures, conservative responses such as layoffs or wage freezes are still used predominantly. The study draws attention to the need to speed up practical changes and implement the theory in practice. Implications/Recommendations: The modern understanding and interpretation of HR is not alien or remote from the organisations that responded to our survey. Nonetheless, their imple­mentation of modern HR concepts has been relatively slow. Contribution: We set out to create an international database that can serve as a basis for future research. We also show that the effect of the HR paradigm shift can already be demonstrated in practice, even if the uptake has been slow. Although the attachment to the past is strong, forward-‑looking crisis management measures that replace previous restrictive solutions are becoming more and more widespread. We hope our study helps modern crisis management in HR take stronger root.

ЧЕЛОВЕЧЕСТВО: СМЫСЛ, ЧТО ДЕЛАТЬ

The article, based on the logic of Aristotle and Hegel, studies the path of humanity from savagery to its modern forms. It is shown that the formation of human communities was determined by methods of obtaining food, the highest form of which was agriculture. It was revealed that the development of communities was accompanied by crises, the cause of which was unrecognized by people in the methods of obtaining food. At the heart of the modern crisis of society lies the erroneous theory of mineral fertility, the application of which leads to the destruction of natural fertility, to famine and a worldwide war for the remnants of fertile land. The crisis can be overcome by replacing it with the naturally formed cycle of four forms of organic matter, discovered in the USSR.

ИННОВАЦИИ В СИСТЕМЕ АНТИКРИЗИСНОГО УПРАВЛЕНИЯ

The research examines current types of innovation in crisis management, and highlights innovative approaches characteristic of modern crisis management, including digital technologies, blockchain and artificial intelligence. The author considers an algorithm for anti-crisis management based on the use of innovations by Yu.B. Golikova and alternative options and features of the application of innovations in crisis management, as a result, her own algorithm for the application of innovations in crisis management was proposed, and a SWOT-analysis of innovations in crisis management was carried out.

ENSURING INTEGRATED ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY OF BUSINESS STRUCTURES IN THE CURRENT CRISIS CONDITIONS

According to the author's research of scientific literature and practical experience of cluster creation and development, most authors and experts consider the processes of formation and management of cluster structures exclusively in conditions of economic stability, which is due to the relatively short duration of functioning of these integrated business structures in terms of economic history. In fact, there is no significant work that would indicate how a cluster should function and develop in the face of crisis. The impact of the crisis affects both individual business structures and more complex integrated entities, such as research and production and educational clusters. In this regard, there are urgent aspects of developing certain methodological recommendations that would increase the level of integrated economic sustainability of clusters of various types and nature in the current environment. Coordinated investment activities of cluster members aimed not only at acquiring property rights, but also at designing and developing various intellectual property objects that can later form collective intangible assets of cluster structures with appropriate regulation of their right to use as an element of private property in the knowledge economy are of great importance for counteracting modern crises.

THE CURRENT CRISIS STAGE OF CIVILIZATIONAL DYNAMICS OF MANKIND

The content of the research problem we have put forward in the article concerns the cyclical dynamics of mankind and its modern crisis milestone. The observation of the process and the deep nature of the formation of the latter summarizes the purpose of this study. The relevance of the problem is dictated by the objective requirement to disclose the deep basis of the crisis manifestations of modern realities. In accordance with the purpose of the study, a number of interconnected research problems were put set forward and solved: theoretical approaches to the cyclical dynamics of civilizations were generalized, the characteristics of their crisis milestones were analyzed which are displayed in the context of modern civilizational realities. To solve the research problems, we used scientific methods of analysis, synthesis, dipping and reengineering, comparative and geographical, theoretical generalization. The theoretical conclusions and proposals obtained from the study can provoke the necessary scientific debate both in the academic theoretical field and become the basis for practical prediction and forecasting of the future development of societies.

The Reflection of the Modern Crisis in Literature: Goethe and Dostoyevsky

Bu çalışma, modernite kavramının yaşattığı krizi edebiyat sosyolojisi alt disiplini özelinde ele almaktadır. Makale edebiyat sanatını araç kılan bir sosyolojik analizi amaçlar. Çalışma, Goethe’nin Faust metni ile Dostoyevski’nin Yeraltından Notlar metninin karşılaştırmalı bir tartışmasını yapmaktadır; böylelikle Goethe ve Dostoyevski’nin iki temel metnine odaklanmaktadır. Çalışmanın temel hedefi edebiyat metinlerinin insanın ve toplumun yaşadığı tüm olaylara ışık tutması itibariyle, edebi metinlerin sosyolojik boyutunu tartışmaktır. Edebi metinler ile yazıldığı dönem arasında ince bir bağ vardır aynı zamanda metinleri oluşturan yazarlarda dönemin koşullarından etkilenmiş olup, bu koşulları eserlerinde tartışmaktadırlar. Çalışmada Batı edebiyatının iki ünlü yazarının seçilmesinin en önemli sebebi; metinlerinde modern yaşamın ruhsal çok anlamlılığının yansımalarını vurgulamalarıdır. Modern insanın, tinsel bunalımının aktarıldığı bu kitapların anlamlandırılıp yorumlanabilmesi büyük önem arz etmektedir. Modernitenin oluşturduğu krize yönelik yazılan bu kitaplarda, betimlenen modern insanın sadece maddi güçlerle sınırlı olmadığı öne sürülmektedir. Modern insanın aynı zamanda dinsel, sanatsal, politik, moral ve felsefi değerler ile de çevrili olduğu ifade edilmektedir. Bu metinler, modernite ile insanın sadece maddi güçlerle çevrilerek ruhunun yüceltilmesi konusundaki yetersizliğini ortaya çıkarmaktadır. Seçilen eserlerde kahramanların karşılaştıkları sorunlar ve bu sorunlara karşı olan tutumları, ne hissettikleri ve sorunlardan nasıl etkilendikleri ortaya konulmuştur. Yazınsal kahramanların modernite ile hesaplaşmaları düşünce, söylem ve davranışları aracılığı ile incelenmiştir. Bu makale modernitenin yaşattığı krizi ortaya koyan edebi eserleri sosyolojik analiz amacı ile kaleme alınmıştır.

COMPREHENSION OF THE “RELIGIOUS REVOLUTION” OF THE 1960–1980s IN THE WORKS OF ALAN WATTS AND ROBERT BELLAH

The purpose of the article is a historical and philosophical analysis of the English-language material devoted to the phenomenon of “religious revolution” in the second half of the 20th century. The relevance is due to the need to fill in the “white spots” (analysis of ideas from the materials not translated into Russian) in the study of the history of foreign religion philosophy of the 20th century, by supplementing the domestic historical and philosophical discourse with the analysis of Alan Watts’ “Beyond Theology”, Robert N. Bellah’s “New Religious Consciousness and the Crisis of Modernity” and works of his colleagues, which are valuable for exploring the philosophical foundations and explaining the causes of the “religious revolution” of the 1960–1980s. This topic can also be of value as a support for clarifying other little-studied fragments in the world historical and philosophical process.

Роль и значение правового регулирования трудовых отношений в управлении человеческими ресурсами

The object of research in this article is the social relations that are developing regarding the legal regulation of labor relations in the process of human resource management. The subject is the norms of the law regulating labor relations in the process of human resource management. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of modern crisis phenomena in the Russian economy and the relationship between the resolution of related problems exclusively by legal norms. The role of the law as a basic regulator of labor relations is demonstrated. The main scientific results of the study are the conclusion confirming the high role of the law, legal regulation in the process of human resource management. The scientific novelty of the work consists in highlighting the most urgent crisis phenomena in the country’s economy in relation to labor relations, legal regulation and human resource management.