Sigmund Freud on Religion | The Future of an Illusion | psychology of religion

Sigmund Freud dreamed of an atheistic utopia – a world free of religion. For him a society free of religion is a healthy society. But why did he think so and is it possible to create Nonreligious World?

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Bibliography:
Main work used is: Daniel L. Pals. 2006. Eight Theories of Religion. Oxford University Press.
“Obsessive Actions and Religious Practices” (1907)
Totem and Taboo (1913)
The Future of an Illusion (1927)
Moses and Monotheism (1938)

Recommended Reading:
Arweck Elisabeth, William Keenan. ed. 2006. Materializing Religion. Expression, Performance and Ritual. Routledge.
Asad, Talal. 2003. Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity. Stanford University Press.
Balagangadhara, S. N. (2010) "Orientalism, Postcolonialism, and the 'Construction' of Religion" in Bloch, Keppens & Hegde (Eds.), Rethinking Religion in India: The Colonial Construction of Hinduism. New York: Routledge, pp. 135–163
Blankholm, Joseph. 2022. The Secular Paradox On the Religiosity of the Not Religious. NYU Press.
Boyer, Pascal. 2001. Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought.
Day, Abby. 2011. Believing in Belonging: Belief and Social Identity in the Modern World. Oxford University Press.
Donovan O. Schaefer. 2015. Religious Affects_ Animality
Dubuisson, Daniel. 2007. The Western Construction of Religion: Myths, Knowledge, and Ideology. Johns Hopkins University Press.
Mahmood, Saba. 2015. Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report. Princeton University Press.
McDannell, Colleen. 1995. Material Christianity. Yale UP.
Michaels, Axel. 2016. Homo ritualis. Hindu Rituals and its Significance for Ritual Theory. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press.
Mircea Eliade. 1987. The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion.
Newberg, Andrew. 2007. Born to Believe: God, Science, and the Origin of Ordinary and Extraordinary Beliefs
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Ryrie, Alec. 2019. Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt. Harvard University Press.
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Stephens, Mitchell. 2014. Imagine There's No Heaven: How Atheism Helped Create the Modern. St. Martin's Press.
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[miketrotman]

The irony is that psychoanalysis was discredited (and Freud defrocked) while religion is going strong and even making a comeback.

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[Joe-puqi]

Freud started the religion of Freudianism

[americameinyourmouth]

How does the psychological and biological nature of hierarchy relate to religion? It seems many want leadership and even leaders have their hour of need and call upon ideology or religious favor. So does religion reflect our preference for hierarchy, to have someone or something above us?

[Johnnyguy]

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[Augusty.]

What is your stand on religion ? Do you belive or reject ?

[johncunningham]

The god psychosis & neurosis are real.
It is a shame that they don't understand the evolution of religion.
In the bible story after jesus died religion was to be a spiritual situation and not the physical, which has caused severe problems.

[seaside]

Religion has become so prominent because it is the easiest way to find the existential truth’s that man so eagerly craves. They hear of the god and his afterlife and they feel comfort, comfort in knowing that God and existence loves him, and he sighs in relief, almost like a drug. It is for this reason that he defends god with his all. Religion is an opium that man so willingly indulges. Now who would let A fellow man fall into such an unhealthy addiction.

[Elvengem]

Freud isnt in Heaven, not likely! Too bad he didnt love the God of his forefathers, but rejected Him by interpreting the mind as all material and not anything spiritual.

[benjaminpendleton]

Atheists assume that fear is the basis of religious belief. In my case at least, their assumption couldn't be more wrong. I chose religion when I saw a quote from the Bible that I loved and that inspired me. Love is the foundation of my religion, not fear.

[noname-byqz]

Astrology has been debunked? Quite the opposite. People who've tried to debunk it have been convinced. It's just a matter of finding someone with good training and experience.