INtroduction: religion, politics, and social change -- Part One : Religion and political authority -- State religions and religious states -- The secularization of polities -- The secularization of law -- Part Two : Religion and political behavior -- Religion and nationalist movements -- Religion and internal revolt -- Religion and party politics -- The politics of religious pluralism -- Part Three : Religion and socio-economic change -- The religious legitimation of change -- Religion and Marxism: ideological interaction -- Religion and revolutionary change

1. Religion and politics
2. Religion and state
3. Religion and sociology