Though not comprehensive, this is a nice sampling of Nietzsche's diverse explanatory and critical psychological, speculative-anthropological and socio-historical diagnostic perspectives on religion. Divided into two parts, the first consists mostly of notebook material from the astonishingly fruitful final year of Nietzsche's sanity (1888) that he drew upon in composing Der Antichrist, which was eventually published in 1895; the second consists of material drawn from both the first edition (1882) of Die fröhliche Wissenschaft and from the expansion of the latter that he added to a second edition (1887). The excellent translations are drawn from the superb recent Penguin editions of Nietzsche's The Will to Power and The Joyous Science.