Kostenko A. Faith as a religious and psychological phenomenon

For the first time in the national opinion research revealed substantial features of religious faith as a religious-psychological phenomenon based on detailed analysis of its integrated structured and function. In a significant source materials appear to be different approaches to the understanding of the concept. Research aimed at disclosing the conceptual model of religious faith, its psychological features, which enables clarify its differences from non-religious faith. Disclosure interdependence on the one hand, between confidence and trust, on the other - faith and knowledge. Found that, depending on how religious faith in the interrelated cognitive, emotional and sensual, voletatyvnyy components formed a certain religion, spirituality or characterized destruktyvnistyu.