Who Believes in Belief? William Pooley (bio) modernity, belief, alief, doubt, Jason Josephson Storm, Michael Saler, Jeanne Favret-Saada, Nils Bubandt The "disenchantment of the world" remains a guiding metanarrative for many histories last four hundred years Europe. There are those who continue to argue what Keith Thomas called general "decline magic," even if they disagree about chronologies a...

Social networks are an essential part of various political processes. They help to build mental models and control official public discourse. The article features the ethnic resource as regional identity constructed by President Republic Tatarstan on his Instagram. analysis relied both subjective presentation, well visual content contexts. author analyzed Instagram posts published in 2020-2022,...

The title of the newest and fourteenth book by science writer Philip Ball leaves no doubt: this is a counter-attack on claims made by Steven Pinker in his publications The Language Instinct (1994) and How the Mind Works (1997). Pinker characterized music as ‘auditory cheesecake’ (1997: 534): a tasty bonus but, from an evolutionary point of view, no more than a by-product of much more important ...

Ethnology of religion, a new branch religious studies, is only at the phase its formation present stage. Every nation, according to natural right, has native land, language and faith (spirituality, culture, tradition). This book: Lozko Halyna «Ethnology religion. Scientific articles» (Mykolaiv: Ilion, 2023. – 372 pages) contains current scientific articles on ethnology religion by Doctor Philos...