What is religion? When did she appear and where? How was religion studied and how did the science of religious studies originate? Is it possible to find, in the past or in the present, a completely irreligious people? This is discussed in the first part of the book. And then, step by step, we will go into that deepest antiquity of prehistory, when a human being appears. Still far from being Homo sapiens in terms of its external characteristics, but already a thinking figure, not only creating tools of labor, but also forming a purely human picture of the world, in which, like we have now, there is a place for the dream of victory over death, weakness and imperfection , feelings of due and beautiful.What was the world of religious views of Sinanthropus, Neanderthal, Cro-Magnon? Why a man 12 thousand years ago decided to turn from a hunter into a farmer, how the first urban settlements arose 9-8 thousand years ago, about amazing buildings made of giant stones - a megalithic civilization - and why they were built - about all this in the second part books.And in the third part we are talking about a person in a way of life very similar to a prehistoric person, but about our contemporary. About those numerous until recently the peoples of Asia, Africa, America, Australia, and even the north of Europe, who, without writing and statehood, survived until the twentieth century. What are their religious views, and is it possible to understand their way of life from these views? Finally, shamanism is a form of religious worldview and activity that many tribes live to this day. What it is? About all this in the book of the doctor of historical sciences Andrei Borisovich Zubov "Prehistoric and non-historical religions".