About the book: 2022 / Religion is a person’s attempts to “reach out to heaven.” Humanity has been searching for God throughout its history, and these searches were fruitless: the coming of Christ into the world occurred in response to spiritual thirst. In order not to be alien to the treasure of spiritual culture and not to be thrown to the margins of spiritual life, it is important to be able to understand the basic religious ideas, the history of their appearance and mutual influence. This book examines the most significant religious beliefs in human history from the “Christian bell tower” and in the context of the idea that all searches for God serve some Divine purpose.