Abstract:
The article studies Mircea Eliade's assessment that the history of religions
is meant to play an important role in contemporary cultural life. Understanding of exotic and archaic religions will significantly boost cultural dialogue
with the representatives of these religions and, in particular, the understanding of the existential situations expressed by it, the historian of religions will
assent to a deeper knowledge of man and the foundation of this knowledge
will develop on the world scale a new humanism.