The functionalist perspective examines religion in terms of society’s needs. From this perspective, society requires a certain degree of social solidarity, value concensus, and harmony and integration between its parts. According to Durkheim, all societies have a continuing need to reaffirm and uphold their basic sentiments and values. Not only does religion in itself bring about social cohesion, but often, the hostility and prejudice directed at its members by outsiders also helps strengthen bonds between those members. Yet it is Freud who asserted that religion develops from the need to ward off the horrors of nature; particularly the cruelty of death and also to compensate for the deprivations which culture imposes on the individual. The correct answer is B.