A sociological view of religion: by Karl Marx, Émile Durkheim, and Max Weber

This study aims to outline the views of the three foremost classic sociological thinkers on religion: Karl Marx, emile Durkheim, and Max Weber. To this end, the methodology adopted was a bibliographical literature review organized by the concepts and theories of these authors. The search for an understanding of the religious phenomenon took on scientific form in the 19th century with the emergence of sociology and its founding trio. In this respect, each of them approached the subject from different perspectives, with points of rapprochement and distance between them, each contributing in their way to our understanding of the influence of religion on society.