Pascal Boyer about the nature of religious thought. Review of the monograph: Boyer P. Explaining religion. The nature of religious thinking. (Trans. from French). - Moscow: Alpina Non-Fiction, 2017 - 496 p

The article is a review of the book by the famous French anthropologist Pascal Boyer, who is also a specialist in the field of cognitive science and evolutionary psychology. On the one hand, the author shows the specificity of the concept of the scientist in the context of modern theories of the origin of religious consciousness, on the other hand, he notes the limited approach of such studies. At the same time, the importance of P. Boyer’s conclusions on the irreducibility of religiosity to the field of psychophysiology is fixed