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  1. Within the framework of the mythological worldview, the most fantastic worldviews and assumptions, fictional characters, any contradictions and violations of logic, the absence of cause-and-effect relationships between the phenomena and actions of the characters are allowed.�

    The religious worldview, although based on faith, is always correlated with facts from the real world. For example, in Christianity, you will not find stories that start like this: “once upon a time, in a distant country, there lived a certain king …” – there is always a link to the real story and you can always check whether this happened or not.

  2. It depends on the terminology and who the sociologists (anthropologists)are. do you like it better
    For example, Auguste Comte separately distinguished “religious thinking” (including all mythologies and religions up to the 14th and 15th centuries), “metaphysical” (all philosophy from the ancient Greeks to the German classics + Protestantism) and “scientific (actually, scientific knowledge of the 18th century). For him, there wasn't much difference between mythology, magic, or religion – he considered all of this to be an unfounded belief in the supernatural.
    James Fraser distinguished between “magic, “” religion, “and”science.” At the same time, he considered magic to be the forerunner of science, because it was based on causal relationships. For example, a person believed that if he danced with a tambourine, it would rain. These actions are not really related, but after thinking about them, a person could start thinking about the real causes of rain. Religion, on the other hand, presupposes the existence of the will of a supernatural being, which is more important than any causal relationship. For example, a man makes a sacrifice to Hera so that his wife can have healthy children. There is no cause and effect, but only the will of Hera, which can accept the sacrifice and make the children healthy. Or maybe refuse. And all religion, as Fraser believed, is the “appeasement” of this or that powerful being.
    Bronislaw Malinowski believed that mythology is a collection of texts with stories about history, the structure of the world, or correct behavior. They are created by people as instructions on how to act in a critical situation. For example, a close relative died. The person is grieving and in a state of shock. In this case, the myth will explain to him how to act. And according to the” outline ” of the myth, rituals (the practical side of religion) and beliefs (the theoretical part) are created. For example, in some society there will be a custom to bury the dead in the ground and the concept of an afterlife. In other words, for Malinovsky, myth is the basis on which religion is formed.
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  3. The mythological worldview differs from the religious way of representing the world. First of all, the mythological type of worldview has historically emerged earlier. And if mythological images and representations are multifunctional, and they intertwine cognitive, artistic and evaluative perception of reality, then the religious worldview is more dogmatic and carries an assessment of what is happening. In the religious worldview, the separation of the spiritual principle of a person from the corporeal one is recognized, but in the mythological one this is not the case. And in general, in the mythological worldview there is no line between the sensual image and reality itself, but in the religious one there is this line (the concept of the soul and the other world).
    These are just general differences, and if you delve deeper into the study of these two types of worldview, you can understand how different they are.

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