Download or read book Sociology of Religion written by Joachim Wach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1947, presents the then-new subject of sociology of religion in systematic and historical theology and in the science of religion, in political theory and the social sciences, in philosophy and psychology, in philology and anthropology. Its intention is to bridge the gulf between the study of religion and the social sciences, an exercise that draws strongly upon cultural anthropology.