Understanding of the religion's essence, classification and origin in Kostomarov's works
Journal: Skhid
Year: 2015

In the late 19th century, religion became an object of scholar enquiry. But the interest in religion as an important sphere of human life has existed previously.Today, we have a lot of information about the problems of religion. This paper examines the view on religion by Mykola Kostomarov, who was a representative of scientific thought of the 19th century.M. Kostomarov is often seen as a historian, and therefore other aspects of his scholar activity are not examined well. For example, his thoug