FAITH AND ATHEISM IN WAR AS A SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEM

Abstract

Any war activates the spontaneous religious consciousness of the direct participants in hostilities, and the predominant forms of it is manifestation directly depend on the worldview prevailing in society. In the presence of a religious worldview, psychological needs that are natural for extreme conditions are realized in customs and rituals that are part of traditional culture, if an atheistic worldview dominates, they remain an element of individual or group psychology, manifesting in the simplest, even primitive forms