Sociology of religion
History and relevance
View of religion in classical sociology
Globalization
Globalization and multiculturalism
Quantitative methods
Symbolic anthropology and phenomenology
Functionalism
Rationalism
Typology of religious groups
Church and ecclesia
Denominations
Sects
Cults or new religious movements
Analysis of secular humanist belief systems
Socio-cultural reification of religious practice
Sociology of irreligion
Typology of religious groups
Research
Secularization and civil religion
Karl Marx
Émile Durkheim
Max Weber
Bryan Wilson
Ernest Gellner
Michel Foucault
