Books:

Acquaviva. The Decline of Sacred in Industrial Society (1979, in Italian 1961);

Ammerman. Bible Believers: Fundamentalists in the Modern World (1987);

     -     Baptist Battles: Social Change and Religious Conflict in the Southern Baptist Convention (1990);

     -     Southern Baptists Observed (1993);

     -     Work, Family, and Religion in Contemporary Society (1995);

     -     Congregation and Community (1997);

     -     Pillars of Faith: American Congregations and their Partners (2005); 

     -     Everyday Religion: Observing Modern Religious Lives (2006);

     -     Sacred Stories, Spiritual Tribes: Finding Religion in Everyday Life (2013);

     -     Studying Lived Religion (2021);

Bachofen. Myth, Religion, and Mother Right (1992, in German 1961);  

Bainbridge. The Future of Religion (1985);

     -     A Theory of Religion (1987);

     -     Sociology of Religious Movements (1997);

Barker. New Religious Movements: A Practical Introduction (1989); 

     -     Sects, Cults and New Religions (2008);

     -     The Centrality of Religion in Social Life (2010);

 Revisionism and Diversification in New Religious Movements (2013);

Beauvoir. The Second Sex (2021, in French 1949);

Beckford. Religious Organization (1974);

     -     The Trumpet of Prophecy (1975);

     -     Cult Controversies: Societal Responses to New Religious Movements (1985);

     -     New Religious Movements and Rapid Social Change (1986);

     -     Religion and Advanced Industrial Society (1989);

     -     The Changing Face of Religion (1989);

     -     Religion in Prison. Equal Rites in a Multi-Faith Society (1998);

     -    Social Theory and Religion (2003);

      -   Muslims in Prison: Challenge and Change in Britain and France (2005);

     -    Theorising Religion: Classical and Contemporary Debates (2006);

    -    Challenging Religion (2015);

Bellah. Tokugawa Religion (1957);

     -     Religion and Progress in Modern Asia (1965);

     -     Beyond Belief: Essays on Religion in a Post-Traditional World (1970);

     -     The Broken Covenant: American Civil Religion in Time of Trial (1975);

     -     The New Religious Consciousness (1976);

     -     Varieties of Civil Religion (1980);

     -     Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life (1985);

     -     Uncivil Religion: Interreligious Hostility in America (1987);

     -     Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age (2011);

Berger. The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion (1967);

     -     A Rumor of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural (1969);

Davis K. „Some Principles of Stratification", in  American Sociological Review (1945); 

Durkheim. Suicide, a Study in Sociology (2007, in French 1897);

     -     The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (2012, in French 1912);

Fromm. Psychoanalysis and Religion (1950);

     -     The Forgotten Language: An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Myths (1951); 

     -     Zen Buddhism and Psychoanalysis (1960);

     -     The Dogma of Christ: and Other Essays on Religion, Psychology and Culture (1963);

     -     You Shall Be as Gods: A Radical Interpretation of the Old Testament and its Tradition (1966);

Huntington. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996);

Inglehart. Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide (2004);

     -     Religion's Sudden Decline: What's Causing it, and What Comes Next? (2021);

James W. The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902);

Kidd. Social Evolution (1894);

Lenski. The Religious Factor: A Sociological Study of Religion's Impact on Politics, Economics, and Family Life (1961);

     -     Ecological-Evolutionary Theory (2006);

Luckmann. The Invisible Religion (1967);

     -     Changing Face of Religion (1989);

Luhmann. Funktion der Religion (1977);

     -     A Systems Theory of Religion (2013, in German 2000);

Martin. A Sociology of English Religion (1967);

     -     A General Theory of Secularization (1978);

     -     The Breaking of the Image: A Sociology of Christian Theory and Practice (1980);

     -     Forbidden Revolutions: Pentecostalism in Latin American and Catholicism in Eastern Europe (1996);

     -     Reflections on Sociology and Theology (1997);

     -     Does Christianity Cause War? (1997);

     -     Christian Language in the Secular City (2002);

     -     On Secularization: Towards a Revised General Theory (2005);

     -     Sacred History and Sacred Geography: Spiritual Journeys in Time and Space (2008);

     -     The Future of Christianity (2011);

     -     Religion and Power: No Logos without Mythos (2014);

Martineau. Eastern Life: Present and Past; 3 vol. (1848);

Mauss. Sacrifice: its Nature and Function (1964, in French 1899);

Robertson. The Sociological Interpretation of Religion (1970b); 

     -     Church-State Relations: Tensions and Transitions (1987);

     -     Religion and Global Order (1991);

Said. Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine how We See the Rest of the World (1981);  

Sanderson. Religious Evolution and the Axial Age (2018);

Simmel. Essays on Religion (1997);

Stark. Religion and Society in Tension (1965);

     -     American Piety (1968);

     -     The Future of Religion: Secularization, Revival, and Cult formation (1985);

     -     A Theory of Religion (1987);

     -     The Churching of America 1776-1992: Winners and Losers in Our Religious Economy (1992);

     -     Religion, Deviance, and Social Control (1996);

     -     The Rise of Christianity: A Sociologist Reconsiders History (1996);

     -     Acts of Faith: Explaining the Human Side of Religion (2000);

     -     The Rise of Mormonism (2005);

     -     Religious Hostility: A Global Assessment of Hatred and Terror (2014);

Tawney. Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926);

Tocqueville. Democracy in America (2021, in French 1835, 1840);

Turner B. Weber and Islam (1974);

     -     Religion and Social Theory: A Materialistic Perspective (1983);

     -     Religion and Modern Society. Citizenship, Secularisation and the State (2011);

Turner H. The Emergence and the Evolution of Religions: By Means of Natural Selection (2018);

Warner. The Family of God: A Symbolic Study of Christian Life in America (1961);

Weber Max. The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism (1951, in German vol. 1 of 1920-1921);

• Ancient Judaism (1952, in German vol. 3 of 1920-1921);
• The Religion of India: The Sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism (1958, in German vol. 2 of 1920-1921);
• The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: and Other Writings (2002, in German 1920);

Wilson B. Sects and Society: The Sociology of  Three Religious Groups in Britain (1961); 

     -     Religion in Secular Society (1966);

     -     Patterns of Sectarianism (1967); 

     -     Religious Sects (1970); 

     -     Magic and the Millennium (1973); 

     -     Contemporary Transformations of Religion (1976); 

     -     The Social Impact of the New Religious Movements (1981); 

     -     Religion in Sociological Perspective (1982); 

     -     Scientology: An Analysis and Comparison of its Religious System and Doctrines (1990);

     -     The Social Dimensions of Sectarianism (1990);

     -     A Time to Chant: The Soka Gakki Buddhists in Britain (1994); 

Wuthnow. Experimentation in American Religion (1978);

     -     The Restructuring of American Religion (1988);

     -     Communities of Discourse: Ideology and Social Structure in the Reformation, the Enlightenment and European Socialism (1989);

     -     After Heaven: Spirituality in America Since the 1950s (1998);

     -     America and the Challenges of Religious Diversity (2005);

     -     After the Baby Boomers: How Twenty- and Thirty-Somethings Are Shaping the Future of American Religion (2010);

     -     Red State Religion: Faith and Politics in America's Heartland  (2012);

     -     Inventing American Religion: Polls, Surveys, and the Tenuous Quest for a Nation's Faith (2015);

Yinger. Religion and the Struggle for Power (1946);

     -     Religion, Society and the Individual (1957);

     -     The Scientific Study of Religion 1970);

Žižek. On Belief (2001).