Religion and society

The book Religion and Society - The Science of Religion and its Historical Roots is an introduction to the field of religious studies. The author deals with the general characteristics of religious studies, the definition of its subject and methods, the question of the position of religion in the contemporary world, the typology of religion and the historical roots of religious studies, starting with the earliest theories of religion in ancient Greece and Rome and ending with the deistic conception of religion in the 18th century and its overcoming in the works of David Hume and Immanuel Kant.