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64-. Andreas- SalomS, L.: Vom friihen Gottesdienst. Imago. 1913, II.

65. Schrffder, 2k. : Der sexuelle Anteil an der Theologie der Mormonen.

Imago. 1914, HI.

66. Idem: Der gekreuzigte Heilige von Wildisbrach. ZentralbL

f. Psa. 1914, IV.

67. Idem: Zum Thema Religion und Sinnlichkeit Sex. Probl,

Marz 1914.

68. Silberer, H.: Probleme der Mystik und ihrer Symbolik. 1914.

69. Idem: Vom Tod zum Leben. 1915.

70. Sombart: Die Juden und das Wirtschaftsleben. 1918. S. 280.

71 . Smith : Luther's early development in the light of Psychoanalysis.

Amer. jfourn. of Psychology. 1913, Vol. XXIV.

72. Stekel, W.\ Dichtung und Neurose. 1909. Abschn. VH.

73. Idem: Religion und Medizin. ZentralbL f. Psa. 1912, H.

74. Idem: Die Masken der Religiositat. ZentralbL f. Psa.

1913, m.

75. Idem: Die Traume der Dichter. 1912. Abschn. XVIII.

76. Idem: Onanie und Homosexualitat. 1917. V. Abschn.

77. Storfer, A. J. : Marias jungfrauliche Mutterschaft 1914.

78. Trebitsch: Geist und Judentum. 1910.

79. Winterstein: Psychoanalytische Anmerkungen zur Geschichte der

Philosophie. Imago. 1913, H.

80. ^ * * Der Moses des Michelangelo. Imago. 1914, HI.

A series of articles which appeared in the Berlin journal Jesckurun dealing with Freud's Totem und Tabu were unfortunately not accessible to the present writer.


It is our intention in this review to deal with the analytical work that has been done in the province of the science of religion during the past ten years. At the beginning of this century research into the science of religion took two directions as is evident from the writings of the two exponents on either side, Wilham Jatnes andWilhelm Wundt, The divergence is the outcome of the difference in their views on the essential nature of religion. If there is under- stood thereby the sum-total of certain rites, rules and laws which may command credit and adherence within a community, then it appears to be a social institution. On the other hand religion may be defined as a behaviour or a definite attitude on the part of individuals towards a divine being, and in that connection their devotion, piety and religious experience may be described. It religion is then made the object of psychological study, there