Political Science Concerning Religion in the Perspective of Moderate Methodological Naturalism

Abstract

The aim of the article is to define the methodological status of the proposed new sub-discipline of political sciences – the political science of religion (politology of religion)� The diagram of naturalism adopted in the text indicates the choice of the perspective of cognition for an alliance of religions and politics as a single social and political phenomenon� The position expressed in the text aims to find a common knowledge base for the two most important social phenomena� The presented postulate takes into account the combination of knowledge in the field of political sciences and theology, sociology of religion, religiousness or history with the classical methodology of sciences, characteristic for mathematical natural science�