religious minorities in Iran, c. 226–1722 AD. King, Winston, Religion [First Edition]. In: Encyclopedia of Religion. Ed. Lindsay Jones. Vol. 11. 2nd ed. Detroit: Macmillan Reference US, 2005. pp. 7692–7701. Korotayev, Andrey, World Religions and Social Evolution of the Old World Oikumene Civilizations: A Cross-cultural Perspective, Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2004, . McKinnon, Andrew M. (2002), "Sociological Definitions, Language Games and the 'Essence' of Religion" . Method & theory in the study of religion, vol 14, no. 1, pp. 61–83. Palmer, Spencer J., et al. Religions of the World: a Latter-day Saint [Mormon] View. 2nd general ed., tev. and enl. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University, 1997. xv, 294 p., ill. Ramsay, Michael, Abp. Beyond Religion? Cincinnati, Ohio: Forward Movement Publications, (cop. 1964). Saler, Benson; "Conceptualizing Religion: Immanent Anthropologists, Transcendent Natives, and Unbounded Categories" (1990), Schuon, Frithjof. The Transcendent Unity of Religions, in series, Quest Books. 2nd Quest ... rev. ed. Wheaton, Ill.: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993, cop. 1984. xxxiv, 173 p. Wallace, Anthony F.C. 1966. Religion: An Anthropological View. New York: Random House. (pp. 62–66) The World Almanac (annual), World Almanac Books, . The World Almanac (for numbers of adherents of various religions), 2005 Further reading Saint Augustine; The Confessions of Saint Augustine (John K. Ryan translator); Image (1960), . Barzilai, Gad; Law and Religion; The International Library of Essays in Law and Society; Ashgate (2007), Lang, Andrew; The Making of Religion. Third Edition. Longmans, Green, and Co. (1909). Marx, Karl; "Introduction to A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right", Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher, (1844). Noss, John B.; Man's Religions, 6th ed.; Macmillan Publishing Co. (1980). N.B.: The first ed. appeared in 1949, . . Inglehart, Ronald F., "Giving Up on God: The Global Decline of Religion", Foreign Affairs, vol. 99, no. 5 (September / October 2020), pp. 110–118. External links Religion Statistics from UCB Libraries GovPubs by Adherents.com August 2005 IACSR – International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion Studying Religion – Introduction to the methods and scholars of the academic study of religion A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right – Marx's original reference to religion as the opium of the people. The Complexity of Religion and the Definition of "Religion" in International Law – Harvard Human Rights Journal article from the President and Fellows of Harvard College (2003) Sociology of Religion Resources Video: 5 Religions spreading across the world Culture