About the book: 2001 / The book "Religions of Modernity" is a sum of essays devoted to the main religions widespread and active in the modern world. The authors of the essays - famous historians, philosophers, cultural experts, experts in the field of individual religions - present in a concise form accessible to a wide range of readers the results of their scientific research, covering the history of the emergence and spread of religions, ideological foundations, organizational structure, system of rituals and worship, characteristics of modern the state and functioning of a particular religion in different regions of the world, points of contact and connections between these religions with each other, predictive models of their development in the future. A wide panorama of modern “believing humanity” unfolds before the reader - the religious world of the end of the second millennium.