This thematic issue of Readings on the Theory, History and Philosophy of Culture includes materials of the Second International Philosophical and Cultural Symposium, held within the framework of the research project "Philosophical, Artistic, Religious Experience" : problems of possible unity" and held on June 1-4, 1997 at the St. Petersburg Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences . The main purpose of this publication is to create conditions for interdisciplinary , An integrated approach to the problem of chaos , to , First of all , to provide the necessary condition for mutual understanding of specialists in different spheres - to develop a single language , A common system of concepts for this integrated approach and , The second , to carry out a comparative analysis of already existing concepts of chaos - mythological, Religious , Philosophy and Science .