• Ориенталистика
• 2023 год
• Vol 6, № 3-4

The article deals with the views on the concept of “universal religion” in the works of the Indian public figure Swami Vivekananda and the Russian artist N. K. Roerich. The one of the most serious problems of today’s society are interreligious differences. Searching for ways to eliminate these differences makes it relevant to study the creative legacy of thinkers who proposed their vision of a single religion for humanity. The purpose of this work is a comparative analysis of projects of religious unity in religious-philosophic works of Swami Vivekananda and in artistic and journalistic works of Nicholas Roerich. For the purpose of the research the author uses hermeneutical and comparative-historical approaches. The comparation of the conceptions of the Divine underlying on the basis of a single religion projects, as well as the attitude of the philosophers to the ritual side of religions are carried out. The development paths of Vivekananda and Roerich's projects at the present time are considered. The research reveals the closeness of the philosophical approaches of Indian and Russian thinkers to ways of realization of a single religion. Philosophers have similar views on the divine as an impersonal Absolute, as well as a respectful attitude to the ceremonial side of religion. The difference in the approaches of thinkers caused by the peculiarities of their creative preferences. The author concludes about the equal value and viability of their projects of religious unity in reality.

• Indian philosophy
• Vivekananda
• Nicholas Roerich
• Ramakrishna
• neovedanta
• advaita Vedanta
• universal religion
• culture
• the Roerich Pact
• ways of God realization

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