The Social Reality of Religion

of great satisfaction to sociologists generally in the Western world that the study of the uses of sociology has attracted so much attention in America, and has absorbed so much of the energies and resources of the profession, and, moreover, of the inventiveness which has gone into the opening up of new paths into the future. We wish our colleagues the best of good fortune; our own branch of the profession cannot but profit in the highest degree from contact with theirs. We owe, in fact, an immense debt to them for having faced the special difficulties that confront them in the way they have done, and we turn back to the situation in our own