Eight theories of religion

Animism and magic / E.B. Tylor and J.G. Frazer

Religion and personality / Sigmund Freud

Society as sacred / Émile Durkheim

Religion as alienation / Karl Marx

A source of social action / Max Weber

The reality of the sacred / Mircea Eliade

Society's "construct of the heart" / E.E. Evans-Pritchard

Religion as cultural system / Clifford Geertz.