Semiotics of sacred-religious representations. Makhlin S.

In our multinational country, people of different faiths live. Knowing the features of various religions helps to overcome xenophobia, forms tolerance in relation to “strangers”. This relevant task initiates people's interest in mastering the characteristics and patterns of existing religious worldviews, interest, which has not been satisfied for a long time.

The book proposed by the reader analyzes the iconic codes of shamanism, Kabbalah as one of the forms of manifestation of Judaism , Christianity, Islam and Buddhism. In most cases, these patterns are traced on the material of art, because it is most vividly, fully and quite voluminous illustrates the essential features of a religious worldview.

The book will be interesting to those who are concerned with the burning problems of modernity, advanced methods of scientific understanding peace, which belongs, in particular, the semiotics underlying the presented analysis.