title: Ethno-Cultural and Religious Grounds for Cognition and Education
abstract: The article, on the basis of "cognitive culture" concept, considers the influence of ethno-cultural and religious conscience on the peculiarities of cognitive and educational activity of people from North Caucasus and Daghestan. At the same time tendencies of spiritual life of the peoples of the republic are compared with postmodernist orientation in modern culture, as well as the revealing of common and opposite vectors in their development.