REL 2300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Hasidic Judaism, Sigmund Freud, Baal Shem Tov
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Chapter 1 outline the religious response i. ii. Religion is threads of different types of prayer rituals in the lives of people around the world. The materialistic point of view is that the supernatural is imaginary a. i. 1. This point of view tells that religions have been created by humans rather than higher powers a. ii. Ludwig feuerbach (1804-1872) reasoned that there are no supernatural entities, deities are simply projections, objectifications of people"s fears and desires. a. ii. 1. People living close to the land made gods of the most fearsome aspects of nature, such as lightning and death. a. iii. Sigmund freud described religion as a collective fantasy, a universal obsessional neurosis a cosmic projection and replaying of the loving and fearful relationships that we had (and have) with our parents. Religious belief is an illusion springing from people"s a. iii. 1. infantile insecurity and neurotic guilt. a. iv.
