Review by Haiku: Religious Theorists

Among his "facts," Freud borrowed Ernst Sellin's discovery that that "the Jews, who even according to the Bible were stubborn and unruly towards their law-giver and leader [Moses], rebelled at last, killed him and threw off the imposed Aton religion as the Egyptians had done before them" (Freud's Moses and Monotheism, 98).

Seeing the desperate need for a short creative exercise after some lengthy posts, I've decided to give brief (Haiku) summaries of a few of the more interesting religious theorists I read last semester and their ways of defining "religion" - this is how I intend to remember them, anyway.

Durkheim seemed to think

religion's social but the

people aren't aware

Freud's myths meant to show

religion is neurosis

and Jews killed Moses

Otto's numinous

faked words like mysterium

tremendum, the hell?

Bruce Lincoln's four themes

are "discopraccomminst" if

they're slapped together

The scary thing is I managed to write somewhat coherent, full-on essays describing all four of these theorists.

Further Reading
  The copy of Moses and Monotheism from which I pulled the quote is available in electronic form: http://www.ebooks-for-all.com/bookmarks/detail/Moses-And-Monotheism/onecat/0.html 

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