Gregory Kaplan is Anna Smith Fine Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies at Rice University.William B. Parsons is associate professor of religious studies at Rice University.

The contributions of these respected scholars representing the fields of religious studies, the natural and social sciences, and philosophy, demonstrate that more than seventy years after his death, Freud's complex interpretation of religion continues to have considerable impact on our understanding of culture and the way we view ourselves as human beings. This important book establishes a unique and engaging interdisciplinary approach to the contemporary study of Freud 'on religion.'

• Chapter 1 IntroductionPart 2 I: On Freud, Religion and Religious StudiesChapter 3 1. Desiderata and Possibilities for the Psychological Study of Religion: How to Enlarge the Place of Freudian Thought in Religious StudiesChapter 4 2. When Throne and Altar are in Danger: Freud, Mourning, and Religion in ModernityPart 5 II. Perspectives from the Natural and Social SciencesChapter 6 3. Love the Mother, Hate the Father: Understanding Sociology's Vehement Rejection of Freud on ReligionChapter 7 4. Of Chariots, Navels and Winged Steeds: The Dialogue between Psychoanalysis and BuddhismChapter 8 5. Freud and Neuroscience: A Return to OriginsPart 9 III. Philosophical ReconsiderationsChapter 10 6. Freud and Philosophy of Religion after MetaphysicsChapter 11 7. Dreaming Foreclosed and the 'Jewish Joke': The Paradoxes of Identification,or Martin Buber and Sigmund Freud on the Meaning of JudaismChapter 12 8. Freudian Unconscious and Secularization of JudaismChapter 13 Bibliography

Gregory Kaplan is Anna Smith Fine Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies at Rice University.William B. Parsons is associate professor of religious studies at Rice University.

The contributions of these respected scholars representing the fields of religious studies, the natural and social sciences, and philosophy, demonstrate that more than seventy years after his death, Freud's complex interpretation of religion continues to have considerable impact on our understanding of culture and the way we view ourselves as human beings. This important book establishes a unique and engaging interdisciplinary approach to the contemporary study of Freud 'on religion.'

• Chapter 1 IntroductionPart 2 I: On Freud, Religion and Religious StudiesChapter 3 1. Desiderata and Possibilities for the Psychological Study of Religion: How to Enlarge the Place of Freudian Thought in Religious StudiesChapter 4 2. When Throne and Altar are in Danger: Freud, Mourning, and Religion in ModernityPart 5 II. Perspectives from the Natural and Social SciencesChapter 6 3. Love the Mother, Hate the Father: Understanding Sociology's Vehement Rejection of Freud on ReligionChapter 7 4. Of Chariots, Navels and Winged Steeds: The Dialogue between Psychoanalysis and BuddhismChapter 8 5. Freud and Neuroscience: A Return to OriginsPart 9 III. Philosophical ReconsiderationsChapter 10 6. Freud and Philosophy of Religion after MetaphysicsChapter 11 7. Dreaming Foreclosed and the 'Jewish Joke': The Paradoxes of Identification,or Martin Buber and Sigmund Freud on the Meaning of JudaismChapter 12 8. Freudian Unconscious and Secularization of JudaismChapter 13 Bibliography

Gregory Kaplan is Anna Smith Fine Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies at Rice University.William B. Parsons is associate professor of religious studies at Rice University.

The contributions of these respected scholars representing the fields of religious studies, the natural and social sciences, and philosophy, demonstrate that more than seventy years after his death, Freud's complex interpretation of religion continues to have considerable impact on our understanding of culture and the way we view ourselves as human beings. This important book establishes a unique and engaging interdisciplinary approach to the contemporary study of Freud 'on religion.'

• Chapter 1 IntroductionPart 2 I: On Freud, Religion and Religious StudiesChapter 3 1. Desiderata and Possibilities for the Psychological Study of Religion: How to Enlarge the Place of Freudian Thought in Religious StudiesChapter 4 2. When Throne and Altar are in Danger: Freud, Mourning, and Religion in ModernityPart 5 II. Perspectives from the Natural and Social SciencesChapter 6 3. Love the Mother, Hate the Father: Understanding Sociology's Vehement Rejection of Freud on ReligionChapter 7 4. Of Chariots, Navels and Winged Steeds: The Dialogue between Psychoanalysis and BuddhismChapter 8 5. Freud and Neuroscience: A Return to OriginsPart 9 III. Philosophical ReconsiderationsChapter 10 6. Freud and Philosophy of Religion after MetaphysicsChapter 11 7. Dreaming Foreclosed and the 'Jewish Joke': The Paradoxes of Identification,or Martin Buber and Sigmund Freud on the Meaning of JudaismChapter 12 8. Freudian Unconscious and Secularization of JudaismChapter 13 Bibliography