title: The religious-philosophical foundations of ‘Witchcraft’
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metadata.value: Bakhteeva, Maria S.
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metadata.value: 2016-09-23T14:27:29Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2016-09-23T14:27:29Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2016-09
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metadata.value: Bakhteeva М. S. The religious-philosophical foundations of ‘Witchcraft’. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Ser. 17. Philosophy. Conflict studies. Culture studies. Religious studies, 2016, issue 3, pp. 103–111.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu17.2016.313
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/3882
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metadata.value: The article deals with the religious-philosophical foundations of ‘Witchcraft ’. Witchcraft is a mental
  phenomenon, a diverse thought-construct resulting from the intellectual understanding of such
  social phenomena as the witch-hunt in the unity of its diverse aspects. The focus of this paper is on
  the analysis of two key elements of witchcraft: the formation of the concept of evil in early Christian
  philosophy and its infl uence on the transformation of the witches’ image in the culture of the European
  Middle Ages. The origins of the understanding of evil as a metaphysical concept are traced back to
  ancient Greek philosophy. The article presents a brief analysis of the evolution of the concept of evil
  in the philosophical systems of Parmenides, Platon and Plotinus that had the greatest impact on the
  formation of ideas about evil in the Christian tradition. In Christianity, the question about the nature
  and the cause of evil becomes particularly critical and topical in the context of understanding God as
  Absolute, as ultimate authority bearing full responsibility for his creation. The philosophical heritage
  of Tertullian, Origen and Augustine made a significant contribution to the development of the concept
  of evil. Their doctrine of evil became the impetus that provided witchcraft with a fundamental philosophical
  foundation and launched the process of transformation of the concept. The representation of
  witches acquired its logical completeness when the concept of witchcraft , after having gone through
  a long stage of its development, was defined by Christian theologians as heresy, characterized as the
  conscious denial of the established system of Christian values. A theologically articulated conception
  of the imperfection of women that originates from the interpretation of the fall of man by Christian
  theologians made an important contribution to the formation of the image of the witch. The very essence
  of the medieval world-view in which the fall of man was comprehended as a victory of the body
  over the spirit explained accusations made against the woman that she was the main culprit of original
  sin. And since the body was identified with the woman and the spirit with the man, the woman was
  doomed to bear the main responsibility for sin in this system of values.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Series 17. Philosophy. Conflict Studies. Culture Studies. Religious Studies;Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: evil
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Devil
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Witch
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Witchcraft
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Witch-hunt
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metadata.value: The religious-philosophical foundations of ‘Witchcraft’
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metadata.value: Article
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