Evaluation of religious conception of Spinoza

The purpose of this thesis is to make an assessment of Spinoza's understanding of religion. Accordingly first of all, Spinoza's God /Substance and Nature identitywerediscussed from the point of immanence and the nextattributes, moduses, emotions and the kinds of knowledgewerehandled. There is a relationship of necessity between God /Substance, attributesand moduses. The results of Spinoza deduce from that identiy of God/nature are decisive in making his conception of religion. He is criticialagainst to the tradional monoteist believes and put forward a characteristicconception of religion and piety. Spinoza, who reconsidering the concepts likeprophecy, revelation, miracle and law, makescompletedistinction between philosophy and religion. He relates the tradionalreligions with the first kind of knowledge which included the passiveemotions. With his immanent understanding of universe on the ground the idendity God/nature, he relates the tradionalreligions with superstition and consequently put forward conception of religion from the rationalistic and philosophical point of view. Keywords : God, Nature, Substance, Types of Knowledge,Religion,Emotions.