Comparative theology. Book 5. Textbook

The first book includes two parts. The first part is devoted to general issues and basic concepts, everything that relates to religion and religious systems. The second part of the 1st book is devoted to the consideration of the theoretical foundations of the interaction of people with religious systems and the influence of religious systems on people. The second part gives the foundations of the theory of human psychology and the inextricable connection between the spiritual and material parts of the culture of society is shown.

The second book of comparative theology opens the third section of the course “Religious and ideological systems”, which begins with a review of the content of early forms of religious systems in the aspect of the culture of communal magic. The following chapters are devoted to the analysis of the content of early national-state religious systems with some bias in the historical aspects of their formation. The second book ends with an analysis of the Old Russian faith. The entire narrative is based on those moral-worldview positions that were set out in the first book.

The third book included the continuation of Part III “Religious and Ideological Systems”, consisting of the sections “Religious System of Judaism” and the “Religious System of Biblical Christianity”. Given the special importance of these topics for people of Russian civilization, both components of the Orthodox Bible are disassembled enough, and the presentation of topics took the entire third book of the course.

The fourth book included the continuation of Part III “Religious and Ideological Systems”, consisting of the sections “Religious system of historical Islam and the culture of the Qur'an” and “Freemasonry and Marxism.” Complete the fourth book, a separate section “Theology of Russian Civilization”. The next chapter “ Freemasonry and Marxism ” - continues the theme of the biblical concept from the standpoint of the appropriateness of the global scenario.

The fifth book of the textbook with the chapter “Religious System of Ancient Iran”, which opens a section on the religious systems of the Vedic East. This chapter fills the gap that remains after the autonomous (from the Vedic East) consideration in previous books of the training course of the main “world” religious systems. It gives a presentation of religious sources and basic errors, which included at least three main “Abrahamic” religious systems, and also became the worldview basis of the ideology of the Soviet period. The second chapter is dedicated to the religions of India. The religious experience of Hinduism is good in that it can be traced on the development of eastern religious illusions: those that were not considered in the analysis of Zoroastrianism. And first of all, of course, we are talking about oriental psychotechnics.

The sixth book of the textbook consists of two chapters. The first chapter is a description of the world religious system of Buddhism. The second chapter is devoted to the religious and political systems of China. The sixth book is a final description of the religions of the East and the entire course. At the end of the book is a list of sources throughout the course.

The book is addressed to everyone who wants to understand religion and theology. The book will be useful to teachers and teachers of history, psychology, the basics of life safety and social studies. as well as specialists of all types and levels of public service and religious studies, theology, history, psychology and public security problems.