Contents -- Society between Sanctity and Secularity: An Introduction -- Author's Introduction -- Chapter 1 Doctoral Dissertations in the Sociology of Religion, 1895-1959 -- Theoretical and Conceptual Citations in Dissertations in the Sociology of Religion -- Who Were Cited as Sociologists of Religion? -- Number of Sociology of Religion Citations in the Dissertations -- Methods of Data Collection and Analysis Used in the Dissertations -- Traditions and Denominations Under Study -- Chapter 2 Articles in the Sociology of Religion, 1964-1984 -- Universities Granting Doctorates to the Authors -- How Consolidated Were the Locations for Publishing? -- Classical Sociological Theory in the Articles -- Citations of Theorists Other than the Classical Theorists -- Citing Sociologists of Religion -- Theoretical Paradigms and Topics -- Methods of Data Collection -- Methods of Data Analysis -- What Religions Were Being Studied? -- Specialties Other Than Sociology of Religion -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Community Studies and the Sociology of Religion -- Earliest Studies -- Earliest University-Based Studies -- Jewish Community Studies -- Middletown -- Studies of Sects -- Mill Towns in the Piedmont -- Different Cultures -- Rural American Communities -- Religion and Community Division -- Urban Studies -- Overview -- Chapter 4 Research Organizations -- United States Bureau of the Census -- W.E.B. DuBois and the Atlanta Studies -- The Interchurch World Movement -- Committee on Social and Religious Surveys -- Institute of Social and Religious Research -- Bureau of Applied Social Research -- Survey Research Center, University of California, Berkeley -- U.S. Department of Agriculture -- University of Michigan Survey Research Center/Detroit Area Study -- Howard W. Odum Institute for Research in Social Science -- The National Opinion Research Center.

Bureau of Social and Religious Research, Garrett Biblical Institute -- Other Agencies -- Chapter 5 Professional Associations -- American Catholic Sociological Society -- Association for the Sociology of Religion -- Religious Research Association -- Society for the Scientific Study of Religion -- International Society for the Sociology of Religion -- Research Committee 22 of the International Sociological Association -- Association for the Scientific Study of Jewry -- Summary Overview -- Chapter 6 Observations -- Appendix I American Dissertations in the Sociology of Religion, 1895-1959 -- Dissertations Included in the Study -- Dissertations Unavailable for the Study -- Appendix II Origins of the American Catholic Sociological Society and the American Catholic Sociological Review -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index.