This monograph delves into the complex relationship between language, religion, and culture, focusing on how religious discourse evolves and adapts across English, German, and Ukrainian contexts. By reconstructing theolinguistic matrices-the frameworks that encode religious beliefs-this work reveals how key concepts like faith, righteousness, and repentance are communicated, preserved, and transformed over time. Combining comparative linguistics with cognitive-semantic approaches, the volume offers strategic insights into the metaphorical and archetypal structures underlying religious language, bridging ancient traditions with modern communicative contexts.

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Dr Olesya Cherkhava is a Professor in the Department of Germanic and Romance Languages at Kyiv National Linguistic University (Ukraine) and an Assistant Professor in the School of Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw (Poland). Her research interests include cognitive comparative and macrocomparative linguistics and theolinguistics.Dr Yan Kapranov is an Assistant Professor at the School of Humanities and Fine Arts, University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw (Poland), a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oulu (Finland), and a professor at Dmytro Motornyi Tavria State Agrotechnological University (Ukraine). He leads the UEHS Academic and Research Center for Multilingualism in Corpus Translation and Interpreting Studies. His research interests are related to cognitive comparative and macrocomparative linguistics, translation studies, and corpus linguistics.Prof. Dr. Maksym W. Sitnicki is a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at John Chambers College of Business and Economics at West Virginia University (United States of America). He is the Head of the Management of Innovation and Investment Activities Department at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Ukraine). He is an Assistant Professor at the School of Business at the University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw (Poland). His research interests are related to the subject of strategic management, development of research universities, marketing, leadership, health care management, intellectual property management and management of development in the information society.Dr Bozena Iwanowska is an Assistant Professor at the School of Social Sciences, University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw, Poland. Additionally, as the Director of the UEHS Academic Center for Holocaust and Genocide Research, she integrates her linguistic expertise with historical research, focusing mainly on the impact of tragic historical events on language evolution and usage.