R. Cipriani, Sociology of Religion. An Historical Introduction, translated by L. Ferrarotti, new introduction by H. G. Schneiderman, introduction by W. K. Ferguson, Transaction, New Brunswick, USA, London, UK, 2015

Contents
List of Tables
About the Author
Introduction to the Transaction Edition: Ideology, Social Constructionism, and the Sociology of Religion by
Howard Schneiderman
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