Writings
- Der Erlösungsgedanke und seine deutung (1922)
- Das Verstehen: Grundzüge einer Geschichte der hermeneutischen Theorie im 19. Jahrhundert (3 vols, 1926–1933)
- Religionswissenschaft: Prolegomena zu ihrer wissenschaftstheoretischen Grundlegung (1924)
- Meister und Jünger : zwei religionssoziologische Betrachtungen (1924)
- Sociology of Religion (1947)
- Types of Religious Experience: Christian and Non-Christian (1951)
- The Comparative Study of Religions (posthumous, 1958)
- Understanding and Believing: Essays (1968)
- Introduction to the History of Religions (1988: English translation of Religionswissenschaft)
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