Spiritual Potential Research Articles

«Muza tozhe tam zhila…»: literatura i iskusstvo Sverdlovska v gody Velikoj Otechestvennoj vojny

This article gives a detailed description of the cultural processes that contributed to the mobilization of Soviet society to fight against Nazi aggression during the Great Patriotic War. The author notes that during this period, a successful ideological and educational center was formed in Sverdlovsk, one of the largest cities in the Urals, as a result of a combination of local spiritual potential and evacuated cultural values. The article concludes that creative work of literary and artistic figures in the defense-patriotic direction actively contributed to the unification of all forces of the country to defeat the enemy.

Bektaşi Female Leadership in a Transnational Context: The Spiritual Career of a Contemporary Female Dervish in Germany

In this article, I bring premodern and contemporary Bektaşi perspectives to the current ethical debate on gender equality in the Bektaşi Sufi order. While there is tremendous potential in the historical legacy of Kadıncık Ana, the spiritual successor of Hacı Bektaş-ı Veli (d. ca. 1271), and her peers who served as female spiritual leaders in the proto-Bektaşiyye, the institutionalization of the Bektaşi order resulted in the marginalization of women and their exclusion from certain opportunities and positions in religious practice and leadership. This article explores the spiritual journey of Güllizar Cengiz (today also known as Neriman Aşki Derviș after becoming a Bektaşi “dervish”), including her foundation of an Alevi-Bektaşi cultural institute in Cologne, Germany, in 1997 and the opening of a Bektaşi Sufi lodge (dergah) in the Westerwald near Bonn in 2006. I explore the impact of Hacı Bektaş’s teaching that both men and women have the same spiritual potential to become the ultimately ungendered insan-ı kamil, or spiritually and ethically completed human being. I also discuss the time-honored Bektaşi principle of “moving with the times and staying one step ahead of the times” and how it can inform contemporary understandings of ethical and spiritual prerogatives within Bektaşism.

PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT RESEARCH METHODOLOGY: THEORETICAL AND SCIENTIFIC ASPECTS

Modern human resource management not only inherits all the functions of previous personnel management, but also strengthens the management of employees with a number of scientific methods, such as job analysis, human resource planning, recruitment and selection, performance appraisal, salary management, personnel training, career development planning. etc. in order to increase labor productivity and achieve the goal of enterprise development. It was determined that the strategic management of human resources is an important factor in achieving the strategic goals of the organization. This is a combination of unity and adaptability in the management of human resources, which must be in accordance with the strategy of the organization and its strategic needs. It is suggested that educational institutions pay special attention to career development and personnel management in the field of human resource management, so that teachers and staff can continuously grow and develop, providing a source of strength for the development of the institution. To motivate employees, management should pay attention to health factors, working conditions and wages, combine material incentives with spiritual potential, stimulate the work of employees, maintain enthusiasm and potential, develop and strengthen abilities, encourage creativity through scientific and rational relationship between staff effort and performance, and the relationship between reward and personal attractiveness. The participation of personnel in the management of the organization can significantly increase the enthusiasm and provide the necessary support for the reform of human resources management, i.e. replacing it with a new concept of talent.

‘Doing’ reflective practice and understanding spirituality as a way of being: Implications for professional and transformative practice

ABSTRACT This article is based on the keynote lecture which the author gave at the Seventh International Biennial Conference of the International Network for the Study of Spirituality (INSS) at the South East Technological University (SETU) in Waterford, Ireland, on 16 May 2023. The conference title was Spirituality, Critical Reflection and Professional Practice in an Uncertain World. The article addresses the question of what it means to ‘do’ reflective practice, and what makes reflective practice ‘critical’. It then explores different ways of knowing, drawing on John Heron’s (1996) ‘pyramid of fourfold knowing’, and points to a possible relationship between these ways of knowing, spirituality and professional practice. The article concludes with some thoughts on the transformative potential of understanding spirituality in the context of both reflective and professional practice, and how this relates to the concept of authenticity.

National Liberation Struggle as a Manifestation of National Identity Preservation in Novel “Summer Without Dawn” by Hakop Khachikyan and Jean-Yves Soucy

Key words: American-English writers, historical memory, preservation of the Armenian nation, Armenian history, Armenian people, indestructible spirit The novel “Summer Without Dawn” by Hakop Khachikyan and Jean-Yves Soucy is a unique voluminous work with historiographical facts and political comments, which impartially covers the passage of time, Armenian social and political relations, the struggle for the existence of the Armenian people in the the 20th century, Armenian-Turkish relations at the end of the 19th-early 20th century, the First World War, the anti-Armenian policy of the Ottoman Empire and the allied states, the effort of the Turkish government to falsify Armenian history, the desire to dominate Armenia. From the chronological point of view, the novel covers a long period of action, from the massacres committed by Abdul-Hamid to the epic denouement, which unfolds in the gradual presentation of various episodes. H. Khachikyan and J.-Y. Soucy strive to preserve a single perception of the material, besides; he manages to give a logical sequence of actions. The writers pay much attention to the historical data and elements of political interpretation. The writers were the first in English-language American literature to put the national-liberation struggle at the basis of preserving national identity. When writing the novel, H. Khachikyan and J.-Y. Soucy turned to historical memory, which preserves the national consciousness and self-consciousness of the people, considering it as a living present, the spiritual potential of the people and continuity that stabilizes the ethnicity. Turning to the Armenia’s National Memory, the author pointed out Armenian history’s most important historic events, attempts and fights in resisting life's difficulties, heroic episodes, national spirit and dignity. In the novel, we studied the problems that the American-Armenian English-speaking writer faced with: unceasing efforts to preserve the national identity and the right to life for the Armenians of the whole world, the national liberation struggle, and heroic efforts of the native people. In naturalistic images H. Khachikyan and J.-Y. Soucy skillfully represented the deportation and massacre of Armenians to foreign readers. In order to complete the pro-Armenian policy planned by the Turkish government, he, in addition to depicting the physical destruction, masterfully described the spiritual destruction of the Armenians.

Трансформация системы ценностных предпочтений в условиях городской среды (мегаполиса)

The article deals with the topical issue of the influence of the metropolis and its socio-cultural space on the outlook, values and lifestyle of citizens. The article is devoted to the analysis of the transformation of value preferences of society throughout the history of the urban process. Cultural processes related to the development of the urban environment, which contributed to the change of value preferences and the cultural appearance of the city, and the reverse influence of new cultural and moral aspirations on the development of the urban environment are considered. The article emphasizes the idea of the mutual influence of the urban environment and the value system, and a special socio-cultural space with intellectual, linguistic, moral, ethical, communicative and other characteristics is considered as a result of these interrelated processes. It shows the aggravation of contradictions in the development of cities, in particular the city and the polis in the ancient world, the insolubility of some problems in a particular historical period. The authors describe in terms of “cultural proportionality” and “cultural centrality” the realities of the emerging type of society, the urban environment, characterized by changes in the degree of mutual influence of the city and culture, the system of moral priorities. In the article, along with the positive side of the development of the urban environment, the negative consequences of the development of the metropolis are also determined. The authors focus on socio-cultural transformations in the conditions of a megalopolis that affect the manifestation of the crisis of spiritual culture, and emphasize the need to harmonize traditional values and modern moral innovations in order to prevent the deformation of the spiritual potential of the population of cities and megacities.

Human right to language in constitutional law

Efforts made by Ukraine to develop the spiritual potential of its people contribute to increasing the cohesion of Ukrainian society, and to nationals’ awareness of the need to preserve and strengthen traditional values. In this regard, one of the goals of the state policy on the preservation and strengthening of traditional values is the protection and support of the Ukrainian language as the state language, ensuring compliance with the norms of the modern literary language, and countering the excessive use of foreign vocabulary.The Ukrainian language is the state language of Ukraine, which is used where formally established by law. Respectful attitude and all kinds of promotion for the development of the Ukrainian language are the task not only of the state, but also of each of us, nationals of Ukraine. The right to language is one of the fundamental human rights provided for by the Constitution of Ukraine. For Ukrainians who have been under the rule of several empires for a long time, the language is still a pillar of Ukrainian identity, a guarantee of the survival of the Ukrainian ethnos as a collective individuality and the preservation of its national face. Anyone has rights to language since birth, they are fundamental natural rights necessary for the realization of a number of other constitutional rights and freedoms, first of all the right to life (if interpreted broadly, not only as the right to physical existence), cultural and educational rights, the right to the recognition and realization of the dignity of the individual, the right to information, freedom of speech.The correct use of the Ukrainian language is of particular importance in the process of training legal professionals. Well-bred and stylistically correct speech is the key to successful law-making and law enforcement and is a guarantee of unconditional protection of human and national rights and freedoms and the legitimate interests of Ukrainian cnationals. Forming and formulating legal norms, protecting them in numerous legal documents and explaining them to people, a lawyer must perfectly master the norms of language and protect them. Inaccuracies in speech can lead to an inaccurate interpretation of the law. The effectiveness of the preliminary investigation and entering civil arrangements, the prestige of the justice system, and the lawyer’s performance of his or her high social function largely depend on the level of language culture.

Sacralization of the value structures of human existence in the spiritual culture of the Greater Altai

The article characterizes the substantial level of sacralization of values in the spiritual culture of the Greater Altai. The main emphasis is placed on identifying the grounds for the sacralization of values. It is established that the world order is one of the bases of sacralization and simultaneously performs the function of consolidating cultural carriers. The key thesis of the research is the thesis that spiritual culture cannot be fully comprehended without reference to sacred values. In addition, the sacralization of values is considered as a condition for ensuring spiritual security and continuity of values and norms between generations of cultural carriers. The assessment of the spiritual potential of the culture of the Greater Altai is of great importance. The main conclusions of the study are the following provisions: 1) the sacralization of key values is carried out at the essential or substantial level, while the stages of sacralization are mainly "tied" to the religious and mythological development of culture and its value-normative system; 2) sacralization encompasses those value structures that acquire importance in human existence and are a factor in the integration of cultural carriers and their generations; 3 sacralization is the process of identifying specific value-semantic structures – they are attributed symbolic meaning, and they are also correlated with certain cultural codes, signs and texts.

Philosophical Aspects of the Concept “Quality of Life”

Nowadays, the problem with the quality of life concept is in the center of attention for all who want not only to model the best society at the theoretical level, but also to ensure the positive development of modern society. At the same time, there are several certain qualities of life, but there is no consensus on what its basic characteristics are. Philosophical approach is very important when assessing quality of life, as it presupposes a thorough qualitative study of its individual aspects. The report explores the cultural dimension of the phenomenon quality of life in modern society and the cultural environment as a factor in improving the quality of life of people. As a methodology, activity approach to culture and a system-functional analysis, are used. As a philosophical category, quality carries a great spiritual potential and should be considered as a value characteristic of the person and society. The construction of “common values” plays an important role in citizens’ participation in democratic life. It is impossible to develop adequate indicators of the quality of life, if the cultural component of the quality of life is ignored.

Hermeneutic perception of the text of musical works in the formation of the spiritual experience of the person

Spiritual potential is one of the most important experimental reservoirs of a person. The work deals with the hermeneutic analysis of the spiritual experience in perceiving the text of musical works. The author draws attention to associativity, which constitutes an additional source and establishes the connection between the musical information and the personal experience of the individual. The article highlights the factors of interaction between the semantic contexts of the student and those of the teacher in the process of perceiving a work of art, which requires not only the ability to highlight each semiotic unit of the text, but also to know the principles and ways of combining them within a text, as well as the coherence of each phrase integrated in the context of the work. Within the whole, the meaning of each element of a work of art is revealed. At the Institute of Arts of the ”Boris Grinchenko” University in Kyiv, research is conducted on the development of an important field of pedagogical science - the pedagogy of the spiritual potential of the personality.

Phenomenology of Culture and Issues of Culturology in L.N. Kogan’s Academic Work

The article examines the creative and theoretical aspects of the scientific activity of Lev Naumovich Kogan (1923—1997), an outstanding Russian scholar, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of the Ural State University. The uniqueness of L.N. Kogan’s creative activity was rooted not only in his manifold scholarly interests, which included philosophy and culturology, political science and sociology, ethics and aesthetics, but also in his special spiritual potential, manifested both in research and in pedagogical areas. The methodological basis of the scholar’s theoretical heritage was culture — creative and political, economic and ecological, everyday and industrial. The article shows that L.N. Kogan’s interest in phenomenology of culture coincided with the period of emergence and development of Russian culturology (1960s—1980s), when the field of humanities engaged in exploration and development of its specific culturological methodology and when the first conceptual studies in the theory and history of culture were published. The author points out that in his works, L.N. Kogan raised a wide range of humanistic ideas — the purpose and meaning of human life, the issues of an individual’s socialization and self-realization, the moral responsibility of a person before History, before Eternity. L.N. Kogan’s academic legacy, which includes about 450 works published in the USSR, in Russia and abroad, is still relevant in the theoretical and practical space of culturology and other humanities.

The Concept “Soul” and its Translingual Background (a Close Reading of Mourner’s Kaddish and Aleinu Prayer)

Aleinu, a prayer that initially left us with questions, contains interesting qualities. It comprises the text that has changed its tone over generations. Having become more peaceful and perhaps accepting, Aleinu has kept its power to bind Jewish people together as a reminder to praise God collectively. Co-existence of both particularistic and universalistic themes in such a short piece of liturgy is quite a powerful thing. While preserving the very kernel of Jewish theology (oneness of God and His connection with Jewish people) the text of Aleinu goes further and suggests a very brave idea which signifies an ability of all to understand universal ethics. The historic association of Aleinu with stoicism of Jewish people in the face of tragedy creates an additional dimension for understanding of the meaning of the prayer as a source of hope and comfort. When S. Sulzer created his light melody the most communities know today, he realized the re-assuring spiritual potential of Aleinu.

Russia’s humanitarian policy abroad: a conceptual reload

On September 5, 2022 President V.V. Putin approved the Concept of Humanitarian Policy Abroad (hereinafter KGP-22). It reflects, on the one hand, macrosystemic transformations in the world, the dynamics of increasingly complex world political processes, a severe aggravation of ideological, informational and military-political confrontation, and, on the other hand, the creation of a stable basis for further building up economic, political, military and spiritual potentials of Russia and strengthening its role in the global humanitarian space. KGP22 is a long-awaited conceptual innovation, which in an updated form covers all components of the economy, social sphere, foreign policy and national security of the country. So far, humanitarian issues have not had such a pronounced centering form in Russia. KGP-22 became the first holistic profile document of strategic planning. It is characterized by the structural and problematic unification of the main conceptual blocks, with a specific highlighting of generalized provisions and positions that were previously divided in much shortened versions into various fundamental foreign policy documents.

Witty Winds: Japanese Contributions to a Phenomenology of Laughter and Irony

ABSTRACT This paper explores philosophically the experiences of laughter and irony, focusing on Japanese sources but with a cross-cultural outlook. I ask whether globally unfavorable attitudes towards the comic in the European canon might have left unexplored or misunderstood several insights offered by the bodily and spiritual dimension revealed by laughter, and examine them through Japanese sources. Following a short but poignant triad of examples in Kuki Shūzō’s work, the paper analyses three instances of Japanese laughter and irony: the orgiastic laughter of the gods luring Amaterasu out of the Heavenly Cave in Kojiki; the anthropomorphic animal scrolls of Chōjūgiga, and the “Tiger Cubs Crossing” stone garden in Ryōanji, Kyoto, concluding how each one of them offers an important insight on the bodily and conceptual phenomenological cluster of laughter and irony. I conclude with a further exploration of laughter in Zen, a religious tradition with a unique stress on the spiritual potential of humor, following Nishitani’s reading of Mumonkan and his connection to the experience of “emptiness”.

Effectiveness of experimental work aimed at forming general labor skills in students based on gender equality and differences

Student and Pearson methods, which perform statistical analysis that allows for the identification of indicators and objective evaluation. Today their spiritual potential is expanding. In the article, we introduce the research hypotheses of the second, third and final stages of the control and experimental class participants with the indicators of the first stage, using the χ^2 Pearson test, which is often used in statistics research. Thus, at the end of the experimental work, it was proved that the knowledge indicators of the respondent increased by 12.6% on average.

O spotkaniu. W poszukiwaniu duchowego wymiaru relacji edukacyjno-wychowawczych

The purpose of this essay is to point out how important for righteous educational – didactical course the problem of encounter is. The method applied by author relies on analyzing the concept of encounter from the perspective of humanities and social studies. Thanks to that, there can be pointed out the essential (spiritual-metaphysical) aspect of encounter as an interpersonal event by reference to ontological category, of which example could be the space of interrelationship. The author assumed that an encounter is unquestionably a positive occurrence. The reference in this reflection is an issue of spiritual potential of homo sapiens and what comes with it – the culture condition of human population. Recently it is characterized rather weak, whereas the undisputed preeminence – domination of mass culture, which annihilates the spiritual element. For every humanist this situation is a justified reason for concern. Going back to the fundamental matter – strengthening the position of high culture, remembering that human being is an animal symbolicum and can not focus only on meeting the needs of a lower rank. Notwithstanding spirituality is demanding. It makes high demands, for the highest price, which the human has to pay that is the question of abjuration and that only a few can afford. All hope maintains in teachers – idealists who adoring the ideals of high culture will strengthen their spiritual existence and furthermore in educative process inspire and pass on values and ideals to their students, pupils. Conclusion which comes to mind after the analysis is following: a true educational – didactical relation can occur only then and exclusively when it will be in consequence of an encounter set on the spiritual foundation, of which the main beneficiaries will be students and pupils.

ACTIVITIES OF NEW KARAKALPAKSTAN CULTURAL CENTERS: REFORM AND ANALYSIS

The article analyzes the role and activity of cultural centers in the cultural and educational processes in the new Uzbekistan in the main directions, tasks, and economic opportunities. At the same time, special emphasis was placed on the importance of cultural centers in the New Republic of Karakalpakstan in increasing the spiritual potential of the population and reforms in this area.

Organization of the pedagogical process in preschool educational organizations

The article discusses the reforms carried out in NPEO within the framework of the preschool education system in our country, the issues of improving measures aimed at increasing the mental-intellectual, aesthetic, physical, spiritual potential of the younger generation.

Этнокультурный потенциал Орловской области

Studying of spiritual potential of national culture is important for preservation and development of the Russian people in the conditions of the modern world. It helps to strengthen national identity, to keep and transfer traditions of the past to new generations and to resist today to loss of cultural values. Article acquaints the reader with the current state of national culture in the region, organizational and creative and design activity of BUKOO «The Oryol regional center of folk art» is presented. Successful cooperation of the Oryol Regional Center of folk art with departments of culture of municipal districts of area and a number of educational institutions and also regularly held events and festivals directed to promoting of ethnographic material and drawing attention to national traditions and culture allows not only to keep heritage of ancestors, but also to enrich the modern culture of the Oryol region.

YOUTH POLICY IN UZBEKISTAN IS THE MAIN COMPONENT OF STATE POLICY AND THE PROCESSES OF INCREASING ITS EFFECTIVENESS

Young people, especially in our country, to further increase the effectiveness of the state policy on youth, to raise the moral and ideological potential of young people based on the needs of the day, and to further improve the effectiveness of the social and spiritual environment between them, the concept of state policy on youth, the issues of its theoretical and legal foundations are discussed separately. In addition, the concept of space in today's globalized era, the importance of informational attacks in the direction of state policy on youth was discussed in detail. It is scientifically proven that the influence of the globalization processes on the moral and social values of young people is great, and that each country's strategic policy is determined in the historical stages of raising the moral potential of young people. The historical stages of raising the spiritual potential of young people in the direction of the state policy on youth, the main stages of the state policy of forming a mature generation in our country from the first period of independence are presented in historical chronological order.