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• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• About the Author
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Tables
• Preface to the English Edition
• The Sociological Definition of Religion
• PART I THE ORIGINS
• 1 The Historical-Philosophical Background
• 2 The Universal Religion of Auguste Comte (1798-1857)
• 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’s (1858-1917) Religious Forms
• 2 Weber’s (1864-1920) Universal Religions
• 3 Religiosity and Religion in Simmel (1858-1918)
• 4 Freud (1856-1939): The Psychic Dimension of Religion
• 5 Religion in William James’s (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 Civil Religion in Robert Bellah (1927-)
• 4 North American Trends
• 5 The European Trends
• 6 Religion as Function in the Work of Niklas Luhmann (1927-1998)
• 7 The New Religious Movements
• Afterword
• Bibliography
• Author Index
• General Index