To judge by the anthology under review, the sociology of religion can boast of a glorious past. The giants of the social sciences of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are all represented here—Hume, John Stuart Mill, Tylor, Hegel, Marx, Wundt, Spencer, Robertson Smith, Weber, and Durkheim, to name only the most illustrious—by one or more excerpts from their major works.

The current practitioners of the sociology of religion, however, have fallen on harder times. The studies represented in this anthology deal with smaller issues, such as religious patterns of voting, church attendance, and the like. The reasons for this decline are only hinted at by the editors, who apparently write for students of sociology as well as theology. The sociology of religion in the