The leader of Britain’s National Secular Society argues that much religious experience springs from sexual feeling and abnormal mental states. He works through primitive belief, the religion of mental disease, conversion, revival epidemics and the witch mania, drawing on the psychology and anthropology of his day, whose assumptions are now often dated.
A frank freethinking polemic from 1919, of interest to students of secularism and the psychology of religion. Download the free EPUB.