Open AccessThe role of a person in religious life: a person as a founder and ideologue of religion
Author(s) -
Pavlo Pavlenko
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
ukraïnsʹke relìgìêznavstvo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2617-9792
pISSN - 2306-3548
DOI - 10.32420/1999.12.1035
Subject(s) - ideology , marxist philosophy , context (archaeology) , epoch (astronomy) , sociology , religious studies , epistemology , history , philosophy , law , political science , politics , archaeology , stars , physics , astronomy
The question of the emergence of individual religions has always been a painful place for Soviet religious studies, since the latter tried to solve it in the Marxist canonical context: religion is the product of a certain historical epoch and has only socioeconomic and class roots of its origin. First of all, based on individual statements of the classics of Marxism, advocated the idea that religions are the fruit of the collective creative work of the masses.