Discuss some of the sociological, anthropological and psychological theories for the development of religion or belief systems proposed by 19^th and 20^th century thinkers such as:

Mircea Eliade            Herbert Spencer          Emile Durkheim             E.B. Tylor               Rudolph Otto            James Frazier               Arnold Van Gennep      William James                  John Lubbock           Sigmund Freud             Rudolf Bultmann           Friedrich Nietzsche

 Did the gods create people or did people “create” their impressions of God(s)?