Homo Religiosus - Culture, Cognition, Emotion

AbstractAccording to data from Oxford encyclopedias, 84% of the world population belongs to an organized religion, which, at the end of 2009 represented 5.7 billion people belong to about 10,000 distinct religions. What happens in these circumstances at the meeting of the two types of thinking (informational/logical and religious) and how this combination influences the human beings? A number of paradoxes occur within human feelings and activities, one of which being represented by the contradiction between cognition and emotion, namely irrational thinking