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In an examination of the experience and feeling, magical and scientific functions, and ritual aspects of religion, Sigmund Freud's and Erich FROMM's analyses of religion as an illusion, and as symptom of alienation, respectively, are considered and questioned. Religiosity is an inherent part of human nature, as stated by Viktor Frankl, and should be studied as one of the most deep-seated needs of the human psyche.