Sergey Pahomov, Alexey Rakhmanin, Roman Svetlov The Scientific Legacy of Evgeny Torchinov and His Typology of Religions Sergey Pakhomov-Associate Professor and Lecturer, Department of Eastern Philosophy and Cultural Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, Saint Petersburg State University, sarpa68@mail.ru Alexey Rakhmanin-Associate Professor and Lecturer, Department of Religious Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, Religious Studies and Theology, Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities. rabox@mail.ru Roman Svetlov - Professor, Department of the History of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, Saint Petersburg State University. spatha@mail.ru Ten years passed after the death of outstanding Russian sinologist and religious studies scholar Evgeny Torchinov. In this paper the authors conceptualize his life and career and his academic methodology. Monograph "Religions of the World: Experience of the Transcendence: Transpersonal States and Psychotechnique" (1997) takes a unique place in the legacy of Torchinov. Here he introduces a new conception based on transpersonal psychology of Stanislaw Grof The perinatal and transpersonal experiences are the foundation of religion and religious experience. Torchinov offers an intuitive understanding of deep religious feelings by means of experimental science. Torchinov's model is not a way of interpretation of religion as such, but of specific parts of religious traditions. The benefits of his ideas are in limited, quite concise areas of its applicability. Torchinov believed that his concept is replacing reductionist views, essentially sociological ones. стр. 110Keywords: E.Torchinov, religious studies, transpersonal psychology, religious experience, Oriental studies. В ИЮЛЕ 2013 года исполнилось 10 лет со дня смерти Евгения Алексеевича Торчинова. Популярнейший лектор, великолепный ученый-синолог, автор признанных научным сообществом работ по даосизму и буддизму, он также известен как автор вызывающей до сего дня полемику книги "Религии мира. ... Читать далее