Lisina E.A.
TO THE QUESTION OF MECHANISMS OF TRANSITION: SOCIAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECT ^{[№ 7 ' 2011]}
This article is devoted to the theme of initiatory practices in the past and present time. The author necessitates address to the experience of the archaic rituals of initiation for contemporary culture, as they contain the machinery worked for centuries to maintain social and psychological stability at crisis moments.

Lisina E.A.
MATRIX CHARACTER OF THE RITE BY THE EXAMPLE OF THE CHINESE CIVILIZATION ^{[№ 2 (app.1) ' 2005]}
The author considers a rite as 1) a matrix ontological dimension projecting different phenomena characteristics; 2) an ontological dimension based on the ethical and social essence, or nature. Chinese civilization way of living and ideology reflect ethical and social paradigm as it is. Regularities between methodological rite sense and theoretical ground of the spiritual concepts (Taoism and … in particular) are schemed to show the theoretical postulates. For this very reason, the author characterizes the essence of the rite theory according to A. Van Gennep and V. Terner in application to the cultural and historical, metahistorical, spiritual realities of the Chinese civilization. Its correlation mechanisms are shown on the certain examples. The author foregrounds the idea how the rite as a spiritual feat indicates the symbolic dimension.