Books by Christian sociologists and classic sociologists of religion: Peter Berger, James Davison Hu

Sociology is an area that has received little attention in the Logos catalog thus far. Here are two well-respected Christian sociologists (both have been visiting professors at Baylor) you should get a few books from:

• James Davison Hunter. To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World (OUP, 2010)
• James Davison Hunter. Evangelicalism: The Coming Generation (University of Chicago Press, 1993)
• James Davison Hunter. Death Of Character: Moral Education In An Age Without Good Or Evil (Basic Books, 2008)
• James Davison Hunter. Culture Wars: The Struggle To Control The Family, Art, Education, Law, And Politics In America (Basic Books, 1992)
• Peter Berger. The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion (Anchor, 1990)
• Peter Berger. The Many Altars of Modernity: Toward a Paradigm for Religion in a Pluralist Age (De Gruyter Mouton, 2014)
• Peter Berger, The Desecularization of the World: Resurgent Religion and World Politics (Eerdmans, 1999)
• Peter Berger. A Rumor of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural (Anchor, 1970)
• Peter Berger. The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (Anchor, 1967)

David Lyon is someone I know personally who has taught on topics related to faith and technology at Regent College summer school:

• David Lyon. Jesus in Disneyland: Religion in Postmodern Times (Polity, 2000)
• David Lyon. Karl Marx: A Christian Assessment of His Life and Thought (IVP, 1981)
• David Lyon. The Information Society: Issues and Illusions (Polity, 1991)
• David Lyon. The Electronic Eye: The Rise of Surveillance Society (University of Minnesota Press, 1994)
• David Lyon. Postmodernity (University of Minnesota Press, 1999)
• David Lyon. Surveillance Society: Monitoring Everyday Life (Open University Press, 2001)
• David Lyon. Surveillance Studies: An Overview (Polity, 2007)

Zygmunt Bauman is a Polish sociologist who was interviewed on the Mars Hill Audio Journal after this book Liquid Modernity came out

• Zygmunt Bauman. Liquid Modernity (Polity, 2000) - 
• Zygmunt Bauman. Globalization: The Human Consequences (Columbia University Press, 1998)
• Zygmunt Bauman. Moral Blindness: The Loss of Sensitivity in Liquid Modernity (Polity, 2013)
• Zygmunt Bauman. Liquid Times: Living in an Age of Uncertainty (Polity, 2006)
• Zygmunt Bauman. Culture in a Liquid Modern World (Polity, 2011)
• Zygmunt Bauman. Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds (Polity, 2003)
• Zygmunt Bauman. Wasted Lives: Modernity and Its Outcasts (Polity, 2003)
• Zygmunt Bauman. Modernity and the Holocaust (Cornell University Press, 2001)
• Zygmunt Bauman. The Art of Life (Polity, 2008)
• Zygmunt Bauman. Consuming Life (Polity, 2007)

Bauman and Lyon have collaborated on a book.

• Zygmunt Bauman & David Lyon. Liquid Surveillance: A Conversation (Polity, 2012)

These others are older classics.

• *Emile Durkheim. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (Free Press, 1995; reprint: Dover, 2008)
• Mircea Eliade. The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987)
• Mircea Eliade. Patterns in Comparative Religion (Bison Books, 1996)
• Mircea Eliade, ed. Encyclopedia of Religion (Macmillan, 1986)
• *Max Weber. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Routledge, 2001)

I'm not sure if Eliade belongs in this list with the others. He's more of a historian of religion and has come under some criticism, but he's still cited all over the place. Also, though Lyon and Bauman are Christians, most of their works are not of particular interest to Christians. Finally, most of these writers publish through presses that Logos has no relationship with and would likely not find many other books from that they'd want to carry, so I'm guessing most of these are unlikely. But I still would like to see James Davison Hunter and Peter Berger as important Christian sociologists, and the two starred works by Emile Durkheim and Max Weber which are absolute classics.