While Ray Billington in his approach to the evolution of religion tends to adhere to the classical idea of the Great Chain of Being with its clear distinction between more and less advanced forms of spirituality, Dmitry Usenco offers a radically modern rereading of religious evolution – as a series of largely random ‘mutations’ of which not all necessarily give rise to ‘superior’ forms and which can sometimes even find themselves at a dead end.
‘Back to the primitive, which is anything but primitive’ is Dmitry Usenco’s order of the day in his epic quest for reconsidering the basics of religious consciousness.