Paul J. Watson, Ph.D. (1977), University of Texas at Arlington, was Professor of Psychology at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He published over 200 articles in the psychology of religion. He died shortly after completing this manuscript.

• Flesh and Blood: Interrogating Freud on Human Sacrifice, Real and ImaginedBenjamin Beit-HallahmiAbstractKeywords1 Turning to Freud’s Ideas2 Approaching an Imaginary Religion3 Shadows and Echoes: the Legacy of the Blood Libel4 Shadows and Echoes: Child Sacrifice in Texts and Traditions5 Sacred Cannibalism or the Atonement for Primal Crimes6 Conclusion: Unanswered QuestionsAcknowledgementsReferences

"This monograph is a beautiful summary of Paul J. Watson’s conceptualization of ideological surround fortified by an impressive empirical research program that goes back to the 1980s. To be honest, without this monograph, it has been hard for me over the years to follow Watson’s line of reasoning just from his empirical studies alone. This monograph has made me a bigger fan of his work and its potential for the psychology of religion. I only wish he was around another three decades to carry it further. That has to be left up to the rest of us." - Peter C. Hill, Biola University, in: The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, June 2020