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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUDN Journal of Sociology</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of Sociology</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Социология</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2313-2272</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2408-8897</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumamba</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">32033</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2313-2272-2022-22-3-477-488</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>Theory, Methodology and History of Sociological Research</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Вопросы истории, теории и методологии</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Challenges of ‘modern evil’ for the sustainable development: A request for cooperation of scientific and theological knowledge</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вызовы «современного зла» устойчивому развитию: запрос на сотрудничество научного и теологического знания</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Kravchenko</surname><given-names>S. A.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Кравченко</surname><given-names>Сергей Александрович</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>доктор философских наук, заведующий кафедрой социологии Московского государственного института международных отношений (университета) Министерства иностранных дел Российской Федерации; главный научный сотрудник Института социологии Федерального научно-исследовательского социологического центра Российской академии наук</p></bio><email>sociol7@yandex.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Moscow State University of International Relations</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Московский государственный институт международных отношений</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff2"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Institute of Sociology of FCTAS RAS</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Институт социологии ФНИСЦ РАН</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2022-09-29" publication-format="electronic"><day>29</day><month>09</month><year>2022</year></pub-date><volume>22</volume><issue>3</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">VOL 22, NO3 (2022)</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">ТОМ 22, №3 (2022)</issue-title><fpage>477</fpage><lpage>488</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2022-09-29"><day>29</day><month>09</month><year>2022</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2022, Kravchenko S.A.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2022, Кравченко С.А.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2022</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Kravchenko S.A.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Кравченко С.А.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/sociology/article/view/32033">https://journals.rudn.ru/sociology/article/view/32033</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p style="text-align: justify;">The author considers the latest challenges for the sustainable development as determined by ‘modern evil’. Its essence is not limited to specific sanctions or war: it is multifaceted - expressed in simulacra and fakes, ‘non-events’ and post-truth; producing ‘moral blindness’, neonationalism, xenophobia and Russophobia, ‘cultural racism’, and ‘normal traumas’ in the society and nature. Actually, ‘modern evil’ embodies a parallel entity in the form of a new Antichrist acting among us on behalf of a ‘higher reason’ and ‘progressive humanity’, while introducing chaos and instability into people’s life worlds. The author uses interdisciplinary methods to examine specific manifestations of ‘modern evil’: temptations of novelty, hyper-consumption and ‘conspicuous consumption’, global, pragmatically oriented digitalization, which spreads destructive content. These manifestations of ‘modern evil’ should be replaced by the sharing of goods and services, movement towards the ethics of modesty and national-sovereign digitalization. The demand for cooperation of representatives of scientific and theological knowledge for the sake of new forms of sustainable development meets the requirements of the realities of global complexity and nonlinearity. Such cooperation can become a driver of the humanity’s active production of good and humanism - as the main factor of movement to the ‘sane society’ functioning in harmony with humanized scientific-technological innovations and authentic nature.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p style="text-align: justify;">В статье анализируются новейшие вызовы устойчивому развитию, порождаемые «современным злом», суть которого не ограничивается конкретными санкциями или войной: оно многолико - выражается в симулякрах и фейках, «не-событиях» и постправде, культивирует «моральную слепоту», неонационализм, ксенофобию и русофобию, «культурный расизм», «нормальные травмы» человека, общества и природы. «Современное зло» фактически олицетворяет параллельную сущность в виде нового Антихриста, действующего среди нас от имени «высшего разума» и «передового человечества», внося при этом хаос и неустойчивость в жизненные миры людей. В статье используются междисциплинарные методы исследования конкретных проявлений «современного зла»: соблазнов новизны, гиперпотребления и «демонстративного потребления», глобальной, прагматически ориентированной цифровизации, распространяющей деструктивный контент, которым противопоставляется совместное использование товаров и услуг, движение к этике скромности и национально-суверенная цифровизация. Автор обосновывает востребованность сотрудничества представителей научного и теологического знания ради выработки новых форм устойчивого развития, адекватных реалиям глобальной сложности и нелинейности. Это сотрудничество может стать драйвером перехода к активному производству добра и гуманизма как главного фактора движения к «здоровому обществу», функционирующему в гармонии с очеловеченными научно-технологическими инновациями и аутентичной природой.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>‘modern evil’</kwd><kwd>sustainable development</kwd><kwd>global complexity</kwd><kwd>nonlinearity</kwd><kwd>‘arrow of time’</kwd><kwd>digitalization</kwd><kwd>humanism</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>«современное зло»</kwd><kwd>устойчивое развитие</kwd><kwd>глобальная сложность</kwd><kwd>нелинейность</kwd><kwd>«стрела времени»</kwd><kwd>цифровизация</kwd><kwd>гуманизм</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Alexander J.C. The Drama of Social Life. Cambridge; 2017.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B2"><label>2.</label><mixed-citation>Alexander J.C. The Meaning of Social Life. 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