Abstract
Sociology of religion views religion and religiousness as a social phenomenon, something that exists due to alleged social or psychological functions. Religion is believed to exist to sustain social cohesion or to express identity of groups or nations. These widely assumed contentions do not fit the principle of sufficient reason, they do not explain religion and religiousness. The article points out that the laws of psychological development alone account to the existence of the whole phenomenon, Feuerbach being the first to outline this developmental theory of religion. Nowadays sciences have better possibilities to pinpoint a developmental approach with this regard. This cognitive-developmental approach predicts the future of agnosticism and atheism different from views which see religion as an eternal buttress of mind and society.
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