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• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Tables
• About the Author
• Introduction to the Transaction Edition: Ideology, Social Constructionism, and the Sociology of Religion by Howard Schneiclerman
• Preface to the English Edition
• The Sociological Definition of Religion
• Part I The Origins
• 1 The Historical-Philosophical Background
• 2 August Comte (1798–1857): The Universal Religion
• 3 Tocqueville (1805–1859): Religion and Democracy
• 4 Bergson (1859–1941): Religion and “Élan Vital”
• 5 The Contribution of Anthropology
• Part II The Classics
• 1 Durkheim (1858–1917): Religious Forms
• 2 Weber (1864–1920): Universal Religions
• 3 Simmel (1858–1918): Religiosity and Religion
• 4 Freud (1856–1939): The Psychic Dimension of Religion
• 5 William James (1842–1910): Psychosocial Perspective
• Part III The Contemporaries
• 1 Religion as Universal
• 2 The Macrosociological Approach
• 3 The Historical-Cultural Dynamics
• 4 The Frankfurt School and Religion
• 5 The New European Perspectives
• 6 The Socioanthropological Perspectives
• Part IV Recent Developments
• 1 Secularization
• 2 Religious Pluralism
• 3 Robert Bellah (1927–2013): Civil Religion
• 4 North American Trends
• 5 The European Trends
• 6 Niklas Luhmann (1927–1998): Religion as Function
• 7 The New Religious Movements
• Afterword
• Bibliography
• Author Index
• General Index