 | The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Routledge Classics) by Max Weber
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $5.95 One of the two classics in the sociology of religion.
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 | Weber's Protestant Ethic: Origins, Evidence, Contexts (Publications of the German Historical Institute)
Buy new: $34.82 / Used from: $13.64 See how Weber's thesis has stood the test of time.
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 | The Sociology of Religion by Max Weber
Buy new: $16.92 / Used from: $7.53 A massive overview of the developmental histories of the world religions along with his famous religious ideal-types
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 | The Elementary Forms of Religious Life by Emile Durkheim
Buy new: $14.69 / Used from: $2.75 The second classic in the sociology of religion.
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 | Democracy in America (Perennial Classics) by Alexis de Tocqueville
Buy used from: $2.86 Important for understanding current interest in religion and civil society. Just read the parts on religion.
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 | The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion by Peter L. Berger
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $1.50 Known for beginning the secularization debate in academic circles. Still very important.
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 | A Rumor of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural by Peter L. Berger
Buy new: $12.82 / Used from: $3.25 Continues were Sacred Canopy left off.
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 | The Invisible Religion: The Problem of Religion in Modern Society. by Thomas. Luckmann
Buy used from: $59.95 Classic work on the privatization of religion.
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 | Beyond Belief: Essays on Religion in a Post-Traditionalist World by Robert N. Bellah
Buy new: $19.39 / Used from: $8.83 Great theorist of religion. See especially "Religious Evolution" and "Civil Religion in America"
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 | Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays by Bronislaw Malinowski
Buy new: $13.16 / Used from: $2.82 Classic anthropological work on religion.
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 | The Interpretation Of Cultures (Basic Books Classics) by Clifford Geertz
Buy new: $18.72 / Used from: $4.50 "Religion as a Cultural System" one of the most important essays on religion every written. Also other good essays on the topic of religion.
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 | Islam Observed: Religious Development in Morocco and Indonesia (Phoenix Books) by Clifford Geertz
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $2.99 Applies his theories of religion to Islamic developments in Morocco and Indonesia
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 | The Future of Religion: Secularization, Revival and Cult Formation by Rodney Stark
Buy new: $33.02 / Used from: $3.43 Known for beginning the rational choice theory (RCT) of religion
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 | Acts of Faith: Explaining the Human Side of Religion by Rodney Stark
Buy new: $18.65 / Used from: $8.31 A further development in RCT and religion, adding the religious economies model.
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 | The Churching Of America 1776-1990
Buy used from: $0.62 The religious economies model of religion applied to the history of US religion.
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 | Rational Choice Theory and Religion: Summary and Assessment by Lawrence Young
Buy new: $41.95 / Used from: $14.38 Good articles of overview and great articles of critique of RCT and religion.
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 | Choice and Religion: A Critique of Rational Choice Theory by Steve Bruce
Buy new: $239.99 / Used from: $71.08 A cogent critique of rational choice theory and religion.
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 | God is Dead: Secularization in the West (Religion and Spirituality in the Modern World) by Steve Bruce
Buy new: $38.79 / Used from: $29.66 Another good critique, and less expensive.
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 | Canaan Land: A Religious History of African Americans by Albert J. Raboteau
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $3.08 A good overview of African-American religion in US.
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 | The Black Church in the African American Experience by C. EricLincoln
Buy new: $15.76 / Used from: $10.11 An impressive study of the role of the church in black communities. Impressive
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| American Mainline Religion: Its Changing Shape and Future by Wade Clark Roof
Buy used from: $0.79 General overview of the general demographic dynamics of religion. A bit outdated.
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| A Generation of Seekers: The Spiritual Journeys of the Baby Boom Generation by Wade Clark Roof
Buy used from: $0.08 Learn how the baby boomers are changing religion
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 | The Restructuring of American Religion by Robert Wuthnow
Buy new: $24.44 / Used from: $2.80 Denominationalism not as important now as liberal/conservative split
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 | American Evangelicalism: Conservative Religion and the Quandary of Modernity by James Hunter
Buy new: $23.95 / Used from: $1.69 Is Evangelicalism crumbling under the weight of modernity...
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 | American Evangelicalism: Embattled and Thriving by Christian Smith
Buy new: $20.00 / Used from: $5.40 ...or is it thriving?
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