Introduction: Framing Freud on Religion -- Part One -- On Freud, Religion, and Religious Studies -- Chapter One -- Desiderata and Possibilities for the Psychological Study of Religion: How to Enlarge the Place of Freudian Thought in Religious Studies -- Chapter Two -- When Throne and Altar Are in Danger: Freud, Mourning, and Religion in Modernity -- Part Two -- Perspectives from the Natural and Social Sciences -- Chapter Three -- Love the Mother, Hate the Father: Understanding Sociology's Vehement Rejection of Freud on Religion -- Chapter Four -- Of Chariots, Navels, and Winged Steeds: The Dialogue between Psychoanalysis and Buddhism -- Chapter Five -- Freud and Neuroscience: A Return to Origins -- Part Three -- Philosophical Reconsiderations -- Chapter Six -- Freud and Philosophy of Religion after Metaphysics -- Chapter Seven -- "The Jewish People Does Not Dream": The Paradoxes of Identification, or Martin Buber and Sigmund Freud on the Meaning of Judaism -- Chapter Eight -- Freudian Unconscious and Secularization of Judaism -- About the Contributors.