Gavrylyuk T. Philosopical and Religious Studies analysis of evolution of Supernatural idea in confessional dimensions of religion.

Dissertation is a complex philosophical research of evolution of notions of Supernatural in different religious and philosophical teachings. In dissertation terminological basis is elaborated, interpretations of Transcendent are analyzed, the place of this idea in dichotomy of such forms of human being as natural and socialized one is elucidated. In the context of philosophical approach analytic possibilities, its principles and comprehension criteria the phenomenon of Supernatural is investigated in its essential traits and historical forms. In Ukrainian Religious Studies the idea of Supernatural was considered as a minimum of religiosity manifestation. In contemporary Religious Studies the range of these notion interpretations varies from confined understanding of supernatural as idea of God in Judea–Christian tradition to interpretation as Supernatural any religious phenomenon, which has a status of sacred. The notion is an ontological basis for religious perception of the world, which in its historical transformations – from primeval religious beliefs to contemporary neoreligious – becomes more abstract, so it excludes the possibility of any empirical interpretation.