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In this article we intend undertake a reading of ancient judaism, or veterotestamentary, in some of its main aspects, in contrast to the Machiavellian view of the role of religion in the organization and expansion of the State. The first step of this enterprise will be given by exposing the founding and delineanting features of the ancient Jewish tradition, especially in the books that make up the so-called Old Testament, demonstranting the using of religion in the ordination and expansion of the State, as well as in the formation of the individual. In a second moment we will demonstrate how to create a new Jewish tradition, influenced and influential on the ancient Greek world, early in the Christian era which will be assimilated and explored in its mystical bias in Renaissance humanism. This Hellenistic Judaism tradition will be best known and assimilated in the European erudite circles of the Renaissance. Finally, we will try to demonstrate how the constitutive features of ancient Judaism, to the detriment of Hellenistic Judaism, can be read in the light of Machiavellian description of the role of religion in the organization and expansion of the State and the formation of the individual.

Religious issues permeate the whole Rawlsian work. The problem is to know how people with different religious understandings can come to overlapping consensus. The solution to the problem of how political legitimacy can be achieved, despite religious conflict, and how, between citizens of different faiths, political justification can be pursued without reference to religious conviction is related to the idea of ​​public reason.

A sociedade israelense constitui um exemplo interessante de religião da política, ou seja, um exemplo de como a dimensão política de uma sociedade pode adquirir um aspecto religioso próprio, assumindo um caráter de sacralidade. No início da experiência sionista acentua-se em Israel a religião do trabalho, a construção de um calendário cívico, a formação de uma nova identidade nacional. A partir da metade dos anos 1970, outros fatores prevalecem: a memória da Shoah, a construção de lugares do martírio nacional, o mito da resistência até o último homem. Chama-se a atenção, neste ensaio, para os percursos de uma sociedade civil que sente a necessidade de reescrever os contornos de sua identidade e remodelar a memória pública, pensando em si mesma como comunidade nacional. ; Israeli society constitutes an interesting example of the religion of politics, that is, an example of how the political dimension of a society may acquire a religious aspect of its own and assume a sacred character. In the beginning of the Zionist experience, the religion of labor, the construction of a civic calendar and of a new national identity gained importance. From the mid 1970's on, other factors have prevailed. They are: memories from the Ha-Shoah, the construction of national martyrdom sites, and the myth of resistance until the last man. In this essay, the tracks taken by a civil society that feels the necessity of redefining the contours of its identity and remodeling its public memory, considering itself a national community, are emphasized.

The original forms of social organisation show the close interdependence between political and religious systems. The religious pregnancy attributed to the phenomenon of nationality is part of that scenery of genealogical proximity between the political and the religious. The founding myths through which nationalities legitimize and consecrate themselves are just one of the various ways of conferring religious dimension to the national reality. Being a creation of modern times, the national spirit follows and spreads at the same time that the process of secularization of the already been designated. ; As formas originárias de organização social mostram a estreita interdependência entre sistemas políticos e sistemas religiosos. A pregnância religiosa atribuída ao fenómeno da nacionalidade insere-se nesse cenário de proximidade genealógica do político e do teológico. Os mitos fundadores com que as nacionalidades se legitimam e sacralizam são apenas uma das várias maneiras de conferir dimensão religiosa à realidade nacional. Sendo uma criação dos tempos modernos, o espírito nacional acompanha e difunde-se ao mesmo tempo que se intensifica o processo de secularização da sociedade ocidental. Assume, de modo paradoxal, o estatuto de "Deus da Modernidade" como já foi designado.

The original forms of social organisation show the close interdependence between political and religious systems. The religious pregnancy attributed to the phenomenon of nationality is part of that scenery of genealogical proximity between the political and the religious. The founding myths through which nationalities legitimize and consecrate themselves are just one of the various ways of conferring religious dimension to the national reality. Being a creation of modern times, the national spirit follows and spreads at the same time that the process of secularization of the already been designated. ; As formas originárias de organização social mostram a estreita interdependência entre sistemas políticos e sistemas religiosos. A pregnância religiosa atribuída ao fenómeno da nacionalidade insere-se nesse cenário de proximidade genealógica do político e do teológico. Os mitos fundadores com que as nacionalidades se legitimam e sacralizam são apenas uma das várias maneiras de conferir dimensão religiosa à realidade nacional. Sendo uma criação dos tempos modernos, o espírito nacional acompanha e difunde-se ao mesmo tempo que se intensifica o processo de secularização da sociedade ocidental. Assume, de modo paradoxal, o estatuto de "Deus da Modernidade" como já foi designado.

Based on analysis of condition of different confessions, the religious situation in occupied Donbass is researched. It turns out that religious policy in self-proclaimed republics is heading towards, on one side, to consolidation of Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate, but on the other side, to crowding outof other religions from occupied territories. Through the help of Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate the idea of the so-called "Russian World" is implemented among different categories of population. Russian Ortho- dox Church was involved into Donbass conflict and its head, Patriarch Cyril. By hiding Russian aggression in Ukraine, he is trying to picture it as "civil conflict". Pro-Russian positionas to the Donbas developments is also taken by a part of bishops of Ukrainian Orthodox Church clergy. It reinforced negative attitude of Ukrainian population and lead to acceleration of the transition of religious communities under the author- ity of the Kyiv Patriarchate. Attempts of the orthodox religious communities to change their inferiority are related to the reinforcement of their Pro-Ukrainian positions. It is stated that in occupied Donbass territo- ries, Ukrainian Orthodox Church and Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church turned out to be in a complicated situation. Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Protestant religious organizations. Considering a difficult state of faithful Catholics in the breakaway republic, Vatican, the Pope provides them material aid and spiritual support. Since the policy of «DNR» and «LNR» is aimed at complete eradication of "sects" of Donbas, the actions of the occupation authorities significantly affected Protestant believers. Due to organizational frag- mentation,in occupied territories of Donbassfaithful Muslimsfailed to develop a common political position. The article states that harassment and persecution of various religious organizations, clergymen, leaving their followers to safe areas in the occupied territories of Donbass greatly diminished religious network, the number of communities, churches occupancy. The normalization of religious and church life in the region is inextricably linked with the cessation of armed conflict and its de-occupation. ; На основі аналізу становища різних конфесій досліджується релігійна ситуація на окупованих територіях Донбасу. Показується, що релігійна політика в самопроголошених республіках спрямована на утвердження православ'я Московського патріархату, утиски і переслідування інших релігій, які перебувають на проукраїнських позиціях, витіснення їх з контрольованих сепаратистами територій. Нормалізація релігійно-церковного життя в цьому регіоні пов'язується з припиненням військового конфлікту і деокупацією захоплених територій на сході України.

Introduction. The analysis of new religious movements (NRMs), identification of the defects in the religious typology and classification of native faith as "neo-religion" are conducted by the author. The research shows the diversity of the followers purposes' of traditional and new religious movements and their ideological systems (national – international), reveals the opposites of these religions in terms of the world and God/Gods (natural – artificial; mythological – historical, polytheism – monotheism, immanence – transcendence), etc., which enabled the author to find out the criteria for religious classifications. Purpose. The purpose of the article is to clear up the basic principles of theology, ideals, and ideologies of New Age and native faith of the Slavs, to determine their fundamental opposition. It's logically motivated the fallacy of classification the native faith to "neo-paganism" as a segment of NRMs. Results. It is concluded that native faith was and still is a traditional autochthonous natural religion of the Ukrainians, which has long existed in hidden forms in parallel with the official Christianity. Only in a democratic society it has been given the possibility of its revival as officially recognized ethno-religious (national) confession. On the example of the creation of NRM, the author states the use of the methods of manipulation with human consciousness that have the features of "religious weapons" as one of the tools of information war. Originality and conclusion. There is an urgent need for state's awareness of the fact of total world informational war to create its own self-protective philosophy of antiglobalism. So in this philosophy a significant importance will be given to scientific developments of native faith and ideology of national self-preservation to prevent the foreign intervention in autochthonous spiritual culture.

The phenomenon of religion in public space is nowadays complemented by symbolic and informational factors that, through certain mechanisms, play a significant role in political processes. This is related to the formation of the political identity of the nation, in which the religious component becomes a certain marker that splits or unites society. Even though politics and religion have their own public fields, there is a struggle for influence and expansion of their public field between politics and religion in most European countries of the East. With the aim to engage citizens in the discourse of political or religious, the political and ecclesiastical elite mentally forces individuals to balance on the verge of the political and religious and turns them into participants of political processes. At least, exactly this takes place in the modern history of Ukraine. The loss of state territories and military events in the East have given rise to the Ukrainian discourse of Tomos, which, through the context of the war, established a new marker of Ukrainian identity. Perceiving public religion as a field for public dissent, Ukrainian society has found itself in internal and external confrontation: between the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) and the official policy of the power during Petro Poroshenko's presidency – the level of the conflict was "power-church"; internal conflict between Ukrainian Orthodox denominations when, due to the signed Tomos, they united to form a unified Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) – the level of the conflict was "churchchurch"; between the official policy of Russia, which supports the activities of the UOC-MP and is recognized by official Ukrainian authorities as the military aggressor of Ukraine (mostly during P. Poroshenko's presidency and less during V. Zelensky's presidency) – the level of the conflict is "power-power". The discourse of Tomos in Ukraine has provoked not only interconfessional and political confrontation. It influenced confidence in the church as a moral institute because, on the one hand, we've had a "church of the aggressor state" (UOC-MP) and an "illegal church" (OCU), and on the other hand, there were "Orthodox" and "schismatics". This has mentally widened the gap between the East and the West of Ukraine. An analysis held based on data from the Razumkov Center, official statistics of religious organizations in Ukraine, as well as judicial acts, testifies that this gap is formed along a territorial line. Therefore, S. Huntington's theory of a global policy developed along the cultural line finds support. ; Формування політичної ідентичності нації, де релігійна складова стає певним маркером, за яким відбувається розмежування або об'єднання суспільства, багато в чому пов'язано з публічним простором. Не зважаючи на те, що політика та релігія мають власні публічні поля, у більшості європейських країн Сходу відбувається боротьба за вплив та розширення власного публічного поля між політикою та релігією. З метою залучення громадян у дискурс політичного та релігійного, політична та церковна еліти ментально змушують суб'єкта балансувати на кордоні політичного та релігійного й перетворюють його на учасника власних політичних процесів. Втрата територій, військові події на Сході країни та президентські вибори 2019 р. створили український дискурс Томосу, який через контекст війни встановив новий маркер української ідентичності. Українське суспільство опинилося на лінії трьох протистоянь: 1) між Українською православною церквою (Московського патріархату) (на сьогодні УПЦ) та офіційною політикою влади часів президента Петра Порошенка – рівень конфлікту «владацерква»; 2) внутрішній конфлікт між українськими православними конфесіями, коли постало питання створення єдиної православної церкви України (ПЦУ) завдяки отриманню Томосу – рівень конфлікту «церква-церква»; 3) між офіційною політикою Росії, яка підтримує діяльність УПЦ (МП) й визнана військовим агресором України та офіційною зовнішньою політикою української влади (у більшості часів П. Порошенка та у меншості В. Зеленського) – рівень конфлікту «влада-влада». Дискурс Томосу в Україні спричинив не тільки міжконфесійне та політичне протистояння. Він підняв питання публічної релігії в умовах релігійних протистоянь. Аналіз інформації, що було проведено у 2020 році на основі даних Центру Разумкова, офіційної статистики релігійних організацій в Україні (на 2020 рік), а також судових актів, свідчить про територіальну лінію розлому, яка представлена у цій статті у вигляді карти України. Що підкріплює теорію С. Гантінгтона про глобальну політику, яка вибудовується за культурною лінією розколу.

The phenomenon of religion in public space is nowadays complemented by symbolic and informational factors that, through certain mechanisms, play a significant role in political processes. This is related to the formation of the political identity of the nation, in which the religious component becomes a certain marker that splits or unites society. Even though politics and religion have their own public fields, there is a struggle for influence and expansion of their public field between politics and religion in most European countries of the East. With the aim to engage citizens in the discourse of political or religious, the political and ecclesiastical elite mentally forces individuals to balance on the verge of the political and religious and turns them into participants of political processes. At least, exactly this takes place in the modern history of Ukraine. The loss of state territories and military events in the East have given rise to the Ukrainian discourse of Tomos, which, through the context of the war, established a new marker of Ukrainian identity. Perceiving public religion as a field for public dissent, Ukrainian society has found itself in internal and external confrontation: between the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) and the official policy of the power during Petro Poroshenko's presidency – the level of the conflict was "power-church"; internal conflict between Ukrainian Orthodox denominations when, due to the signed Tomos, they united to form a unified Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) – the level of the conflict was "churchchurch"; between the official policy of Russia, which supports the activities of the UOC-MP and is recognized by official Ukrainian authorities as the military aggressor of Ukraine (mostly during P. Poroshenko's presidency and less during V. Zelensky's presidency) – the level of the conflict is "power-power". The discourse of Tomos in Ukraine has provoked not only interconfessional and political confrontation. It influenced confidence in the church as a moral institute because, on the one hand, we've had a "church of the aggressor state" (UOC-MP) and an "illegal church" (OCU), and on the other hand, there were "Orthodox" and "schismatics". This has mentally widened the gap between the East and the West of Ukraine. An analysis held based on data from the Razumkov Center, official statistics of religious organizations in Ukraine, as well as judicial acts, testifies that this gap is formed along a territorial line. Therefore, S. Huntington's theory of a global policy developed along the cultural line finds support. ; Формування політичної ідентичності нації, де релігійна складова стає певним маркером, за яким відбувається розмежування або об'єднання суспільства, багато в чому пов'язано з публічним простором. Не зважаючи на те, що політика та релігія мають власні публічні поля, у більшості європейських країн Сходу відбувається боротьба за вплив та розширення власного публічного поля між політикою та релігією. З метою залучення громадян у дискурс політичного та релігійного, політична та церковна еліти ментально змушують суб'єкта балансувати на кордоні політичного та релігійного й перетворюють його на учасника власних політичних процесів. Втрата територій, військові події на Сході країни та президентські вибори 2019 р. створили український дискурс Томосу, який через контекст війни встановив новий маркер української ідентичності. Українське суспільство опинилося на лінії трьох протистоянь: 1) між Українською православною церквою (Московського патріархату) (на сьогодні УПЦ) та офіційною політикою влади часів президента Петра Порошенка – рівень конфлікту «владацерква»; 2) внутрішній конфлікт між українськими православними конфесіями, коли постало питання створення єдиної православної церкви України (ПЦУ) завдяки отриманню Томосу – рівень конфлікту «церква-церква»; 3) між офіційною політикою Росії, яка підтримує діяльність УПЦ (МП) й визнана військовим агресором України та офіційною зовнішньою політикою української влади (у більшості часів П. Порошенка та у меншості В. Зеленського) – рівень конфлікту «влада-влада». Дискурс Томосу в Україні спричинив не тільки міжконфесійне та політичне протистояння. Він підняв питання публічної релігії в умовах релігійних протистоянь. Аналіз інформації, що було проведено у 2020 році на основі даних Центру Разумкова, офіційної статистики релігійних організацій в Україні (на 2020 рік), а також судових актів, свідчить про територіальну лінію розлому, яка представлена у цій статті у вигляді карти України. Що підкріплює теорію С. Гантінгтона про глобальну політику, яка вибудовується за культурною лінією розколу.