skopia
Religion is society worshiping itself. Durkheim builds the case from Australian Aboriginal totemism: a clan gathers, works itself into collective frenzy, feels a force greater than any member, and calls it a god.
Hadji Murat quits the rebel imam Shamil for the Russians, hoping to free his captive family, and both sides use him. The critic Harold Bloom ranked it the best story in the world.
Jung reads the daydreams of an American woman he never met against myth and religion from every culture, finding the deepest material in a mind is inherited, not personal. It cost him Freud.