The thesis investigates culturological paradigm of correlation of religion and art in the culture-creative processes in Ukraine of the XVIІ–XVIIІ centuries – during the Cossack Baroque. In the context of humanitarian interdisciplinary discourse, the syncretism of the sacred and artistic aspects of the spirituality of the Ukrainian Cossacks, the regional peculiarities of the formation of ethnocultural specifications of the Cossack Baroque were considered.
At the present stage, the scientific studies of the brightest pages of the history of the Ukrainian culture are manifested in numerous historical, philosophical, culturological, and art studies studios; however, the study of religious and aesthetic syncretism in the spiritual culture of the Ukrainian Cossacks within the period of the XVIІ – XVIIІ centuries, during the Ukrainian Baroque period, has not become the subject of systematic interdisciplinary humanitarian research in Ukraine yet. The theoretical level of the mentioned issue in culturology, in particular in the context of the philosophy of ethnoculture and of the culturological region, is not developed either. In general, the phenomenon of the Cossack spirituality, as well as the place of sacred art in it, has not been systematically identified yet, because of the lack of cultural studies devoted to the Cossack Baroque. However, certain vagueness of this phenomenon forces us to reveal the role of Orthodoxy in the formation of the spiritual culture of the Ukrainian Cossacks and to determine the general features of such artistic phenomenon as the Cossack art in its syncretism with the sphere of the Sacrum.
For the first time in Ukrainian humanitarian studies, a culturological paradigm of religious and aesthetic syncretism in the spiritual culture of the Cossacks in the thesis was developed. For this purpose the features of the Baroque artistic thinking in the conditions of regional specifications of the Cossack art are considered in the light of the relationship between the religious and aesthetic in the syncretism of the spiritual culture of the Ukrainian Cossacks. Special attention is paid to the cultural analysis of the artistic style of the Cossack Baroque and the uniqueness of its implementation by the Zaporozhian Cossacks on the ground of the Lower Dnieper, as well as consideration of the unity of philosophical, religious and artistic dimensions of the Cossack spiritual culture and their influence on the Ukrainian Baroque as a whole.
In the context of humanitarian interdisciplinary discourse, cultural and historical trends that influenced on the formation of the Ukrainian Baroque culture of the XVIІ–XVIІІ centuries are considered, the influence of the historical situation and the processes of state formation in Ukraine on the formation of the Cossack community and in particular the Cossack cultural environment is determined. It is considered the relevant to the social and historical time style of world view, it is analyzed not only the political role of the valiant defender of the will and rights of the Ukrainian people, but also the creative power that has shown itself in the cultural development of the state. The specificity of the presence of the spiritual and religious, aesthetic and national factors in theoretical analysis of mental issues is revealed, the issues of ethnocultural mentality and its religious and aesthetic features, which influenced on the content and forms of the spiritual culture of the Cossacks XVIІ–XVIІІ centuries are explored.
Key words: spiritual culture, religious and aesthetic syncretism, Ukrainian Cossacks, Cossack Baroque, Cossack Sacrum, ethnoculture, culturological region.
