Predko D. Religious feelings: the essence and features of manifestation.

In the thesis, for the first time in the national research, was conducted religious analysis of essential characteristics of religious feelings in the unity of their structural and functional characteristics. Analysis of significant sources showed various approaches to understanding of this concept. Consideration of religious feelings in the context of the experience as "living", manifestation and comprehension showed their multilevel, multifunctional character. The author investigated various models of the origins of religious feelings, in the context of which he provided the author's approach, which is based on the phenomenon of agonistic as a component of the game. Different approaches to structuring of the religious feelings were revealed, thus attention was drawn to such their components as anticipation and projection of self into other, thanks to which sensual experience is formed.