Some Insights from the Sociology of Religion into the Origin and Development of the Early Christian Church

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Max Weber , The Sociology of Religion (Methuen [ 1965]).

Gerd Theissen , The First Followers of Jesus (SCM Press [ 1978]).

Peter L. Berger , The Social Reality of Religion (Penguin [ 1973]), esp. 34, 37.

See Thomas F. O'Dea , The Sociology of Religion ( Prentice-Hall [1966]), esp. 55ff.

Emile Durkheim , The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life (Allen & Unwin [1954]).

Norman Cohn , The Pursuit of the Millennium (Paladin [ 1970]).

Sigmund Freud , Totem and Taboo (Routledge & Kegan Paul [1950]).

C.G. Jung , Psychology and Religion (Yale University Press [1974]).

On 'elective affinity' see Michael Hill , A Sociology of Religion ( Heinemann Educational [1973]).