cover image Freud and Freudians on Religion: A Reader

Freud and Freudians on Religion: A Reader

. Yale University Press, $70 (368pp) ISBN 978-0-300-08186-2

In 1927's The Future of an Illusion, Sigmund Freud predicted that the ""illusion"" of religion had no future and would be abandoned by modern society. But Freud is long dead, may he rest in peace, and religion is still very much around. In Freud and Freudians on Religion: A Reader, Donald Capps of Princeton Theological Seminary pulls together some of Freud's most famous thoughts on religion and also reprints essays by five of the psychoanalyst's intellectual heirs, including Erik Erikson and Julia Kristeva. This is a useful, well-organized collection.