/ Table of Contents.- I Zur Theorie der Religion / Sociological Theories of Religion.- Ursprung, Funktion und Gehalt der Religion.- Asceticism and Mysticism. A Contribution towards the Sociology of Faith.- Systemanalyse und »Religiöse Bedürfnisse«.- Ursachen der Bewahrung der Religiosität des Kolchose-Bauern.- Religious Motives in Religious Movements.- II Religion und Sprache / Religion and Language.- In the Beginning was the Word. The Relationship of Language to Social Organization in Spiritualist Churches.- Some Forms of Religious Discourse.- The Function of Dialects in the Religious Life of the Bornholm Inhabitants.- Protestant Preachers in the Prophetic Line.