TY - JOUR A1 - Dugandzija, N. T1 - Tjeskoba i religija [Anxiety and Religion], JF - Sociologija, Zagreb Vol. 30 (No. 2-3, June-Oct 1988), pp. 267-284. N2 - A discussion of the potentially curative influence of religion on mental health. The contributions relating to religion of Emile Durkheim, Elias Canetti, and Carl Gustav Jung are analyzed, focusing on their arguments about the curative effects of religion and of religious ceremonies on people's psychological crises. Also analyzed are the theories of Sigmund Freud and Erich FROMM as to how religion can create optimistic feelings in individuals with respect to their socially constructed needs of redemption, release from guilt, and unconscious negation of injustice. Y1 - 1988 ER -