Kozlovsky Ihor
Born on Februaty 16, 1954 in Makiivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine. Ukrainian scientist, religious scholar, has PhD in historical sciences, poet, prose writer, public activist. On September 6, 2023, Ihor Kozlovsky died at the age of 69.
Senior Researcher, Department of Religious Studies, Institute of Philosophy named after G.S. Skovoroda of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
President of the Center of Religious Science Research and International Spiritual Relations, Head of the Donetsk regional department of Ukrainian Association of Religious Studies, President of the Donetsk regional NGO Discovery Center. Member of the Expert Council on Freedom of Conscience and Religious Organizations at the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine.
Actively participate in Donetsk Euromaidan and Interfaith Prayer Marathon for the unity of Ukraine (March-November 2014, Donetsk).
January 27, 2016 was captured by militants so-called "Donetsk Peoples Republic" and was in captivity almost 2 years (700 days) until December 27, 2017.
Prisoner of conscience.
The author of poetry collections and prose works, as well as more than 50 scientific books and over 200 articles in dictionaries, encyclopedias, scientific periodicals.
He actively advocates the release of political prisoners in Russia and in the occupied territories of Donbass and Crimea.
Bibliography
Poetry collections:
- Who Are You (Donetsk, 2008)
- The Labyrinth of My Dreams (A Book of Stars Divination) (Donetsk, Nord-Press, 2011)
- Horses Trample on Dried Wormwood (Donetsk, Nord-Press, 2012).
The most significant scientific and popular science works:
- On some aspects of spiritual regeneration of Ukrainian society // Inter-ethnic cultural relations in the Donbas: history, ethnography, and culture. Scientific collection (Donetsk, 2000)
- The phenomenon of shift of value orientations in spiritual quests of an individual and those of a society in crisis epoch. / Antiquity – modernity (the issues of philosophy). Scientific collection. №1. (Donetsk, 2001)
- The history of religions (Donetsk, 2003)
- Faith and spirituality // East. A special issue in culturology (2004)
- The national idea and the problem of religious spirituality // Collection of scientific and theological papers. Actual issues of socially significant activities of churches and religious organizations in Ukraine (Kyiv, 2004)
- The Assyrian Church of the East. Series "Religions of the World", vol. 1 (Donetsk, Nord-Press, 2009)
- Yazidism. Series "Religions of the World", vol. 2 (Donetsk, Nord-Press, 2009)
- Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria. Series "Religions of the World", vol. 3 (Donetsk, Nord-Press, 2009)
- Selected lectures on theory and practice of religious mysticism. Vol. 1: Buddhism. Christianity (Donetsk, Nord-Press, 2009)
- Selected lectures on theory and practice of religious mysticism. Vol. 2: Sufism (Donetsk, Nord-Press, 2010)
- The Church of Christ in the USA and Ukraine: history and modernity. Series "Religions of the World", vol. 4 (Donetsk, Nord-Press, 2010)
- The Yoga Tree (Donetsk, Nord-Press, 2010)
- Tantra yoga: Sadhanas for men and women (Donetsk, Nord-Press, 2011)
- The phenomenon of Hasta Mudra in tantra yoga and Hindu culture (Donetsk: Donbas State Publishing House, 2012)
- Bhakti yoga as a mystical way of Divine Love (Donetsk: Digital Print Ltd., 2013)
- Mudras and bandhas as regulators of prana (Donetsk: Digital Print Ltd., 2014)
- Hinduism // Religious studies. Coursebook (Kyiv: Dukh-i-Litera Publishing House, 2018)
- Islam: Encyclopedic dictionary (Kyiv: Islamic Studies Library, 2021)
Distinctions
- Order of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Volodymyr from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate
- Medal from the Albert Schweitzer Society (Austria)
- The Commonwealth of Ukraine and Japan Medal of Ukrainian-Japanese friendship
- The Knight’s Order of the Royal Fraternity of St. Feotonia (Portugal)