ABSTRACT
Religious studies may seem like the least likely area where the much needed rescue package for psychotherapy may be found. However, if religious studies is brave and includes in its repertoire post-secular philosophy there could be a way forward. The post-secularist intention is to "recover a world before and beyond the secular". Blond is a leader in the contemporary movement of post-secularists to reclaim God, albeit a very Christian God. Post-secular philosophy cannot be described in a nutshell any more than other philosophies can but it posits the idea of a return to God without church. Many analysts come from secular backgrounds and are still inclined to hold Sigmund Freud's own view- that all religion is neurosis- which betrays their discomfort and anxiety in the face of what they may regard as a competing system which threatens them.
