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According to Wikipedia, Peter Ludwig Berger was an Austrian-born American sociologist and Protestant theologian. Berger became known for his work in the sociology of knowledge, the sociology of religion, study of modernization, and theoretical contributions to sociological theory.

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The social construction of reality : a treatise in the sociology of knowledge (1967) (17104)
FROM THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF REALITY: (1967) (9996)
Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace (1950) (2387)
神圣的帷幕 : 宗教社会学理论之要素 = The sacred canopy elements of a sociological theory of religion (1968) (2251)
Invitation to Sociology: A Humanistic Perspective (1963) (905)
The sacred canopy : elements of a sociological theory of religion (1968) (895)
The Homeless Mind: Modernization and Consciousness. (1974) (701)
Christianity and Democracy: The Global Picture (2004) (678)
Marriage and the Construction of Reality (1964) (644)
The Sacred Canopy (1967) (632)
To Empower People: The Role of Mediating Structures in Public Policy (1989) (551)
The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge@@@The Invisible Religion: The Problem of Religion in Modern Society (1968) (494)
The social reality of religion (1969) (471)
The Homeless Mind (1973) (380)
A Rumor of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural (1970) (317)
Many Globalizations: Cultural Diversity in the Contemporary World (2002) (296)
Religious America, Secular Europe?: A Theme and Variations (2008) (272)
Redeeming Laughter: The Comic Dimension of Human Experience (1998) (252)
Reification and the Sociological Critique of Consciousness (1965) (248)
The Capitalist Revolution (1986) (230)
Some Second Thoughts on Substantive versus Functional Definitions of Religion (1974) (216)
The Desecularization of the World: A Global Overview (2017) (214)
The Heretical Imperative: Contemporary Possibilities of Religious Affirmation (1979) (194)
The Heretical Imperative. (1981) (193)
Pyramids Of Sacrifice: Political Ethics And Social Change (1974) (176)
To Empower People: From State to Civil Society (1977) (168)
Reflections on the Sociology of Religion Today (2001) (153)
The Many Altars of Modernity: Toward a Paradigm for Religion in a Pluralist Age (2014) (153)
Sociology: A Biographical Approach (1972) (152)
A Far Glory: The Quest for Faith in an Age of Credulity (1995) (148)
In Search of an East Asian Development Model (1989) (132)
The War Over the Family: Capturing the Middle Ground- (1983) (121)
The capitalist revolution : fifty propositions about prosperity, equality, and liberty (1988) (115)
Pyramids Of Sacrifice (1975) (105)
Sociology Reinterpreted: An Essay on Method and Vocation (1981) (97)
The Limits Of Social Cohesion: Conflict And Mediation In Pluralist Societies (1998) (87)
Social Mobility and Personal Identity (1964) (86)
Modernity, pluralism and the crisis of meaning : the orientation of modern man (1995) (85)
Charisma and Religious Innovation: The Social Location of Israelite Prophecy (1963) (84)
" Sincerity " and " Authenticity " in Modern Society (2006) (78)
The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion. (1968) (71)
Battle Cries on the Family Front@@@The War Over the Family: Capturing the Middle Ground.@@@The Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment.@@@Feminism and the New Right: Conflict Over the American Family. (1984) (66)
Faith and Development (2009) (58)
MAX WEBER IS ALIVE AND WELL, AND LIVING IN GUATEMALA: THE PROTESTANT ETHIC TODAY (2010) (56)
In Praise of Doubt: How to Have Convictions Without Becoming a Fanatic (2009) (55)
Adventures of an Accidental Sociologist: How to Explain the World Without Becoming a Bore (2011) (54)
Sociology: A disinvitation? (1992) (53)
Further Thoughts on Religion and Modernity (2012) (51)
The Child the Family and the [French left quote] Religious Revival [French right quote] in Suburbia (1962) (51)
Facing up to modernity : excursions in society, politics, and religion (1978) (50)
A Sociological View of the Secularization of Theology (1967) (48)
Sociology: A Biographical Approach. (1973) (46)
SPIRITUAL CAPITAL IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE (2004) (44)
The Uncertain Triumph of Democratic Capitalism (2008) (41)
On the obsolecence of the concept of honor (1970) (35)
Invitation to Sociology. A Humanistic Perspective. Harmondsworth (Penguin) 1963. (1963) (33)
Constitutional Dictatorship: Crisis Government in the Modern Democracies (1950) (32)
The Precarious Vision a Sociologist Looks at Social Fictions and Christian Faith (1962) (32)
The Problem of Multiple Realities: Alfred Schutz and Robert Musil (1970) (32)
Millennial dreams in action : essays in comparative study (1963) (29)
The hidden form of capital : spiritual influences in societal progress (2012) (28)
Movement and revolution (1970) (27)
In Praise of Particularity: The Concept of Mediating Structures (1976) (26)
Religion and Global Civil Society (2005) (26)
Developing Cultures: Case Studies (2006) (26)
The Homeless Mind. Modernization and Consciouness. Harmondsworth (Penguin) 1973. (1973) (25)
Secularization and de-secularization (2002) (24)
Facing up to Modernity: Excursions in Society, Politics and Religion (1981) (24)
Questions of faith : a skeptical affirmation of Christianity (2005) (23)
The Secularization Debate (2003) (21)
The human shape of work: studies in the sociology of occupations (1965) (20)
Business and democracy, cohabitation or contradiction? (1996) (19)
The Noise Of Solemn Assemblies Christian Commitment And The Religious Establishment In America (2015) (18)
A Future South Africa: Visions, Strategies, and Realities (1989) (17)
Orthodoxy and Global Pluralism (2005) (16)
A neo-Weberian approach to religion in international politics (2015) (16)
The False Consciousness of “Consciousness Raising” (1975) (15)
Global Pentecostalism in the 21st Century (2013) (14)
Pluralism, Protestantization, and the Voluntary Principle (2017) (14)
Ethics and the Present Class Struggle (1978) (14)
The Other side of God: A polarity in world religions (1981) (13)
Sectarianism and Religious Sociation (1958) (12)
Review Symposium: Peter L. Berger's "The Heretical Imperative" (1981) (11)
Against the World for the World: The Hartford Appeal and the Future of American Religion (1976) (11)
The Other Side of God (1982) (10)
Questions Of Faith (2003) (10)
Reflections on the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of The Social Construction of Reality (2017) (9)
Response by Detlef Pollack: Toward a New Paradigm for the Sociology of Religion? (2014) (9)
The Gross National Product and the Gods (1994) (9)
Reflections on Patriotism (1974) (9)
Cultural Analysis: The Work of Peter L. Berger, Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault and Jürgen Habermas@@@Cultural Analysis: The Work of Peter L. Berger, Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault and Jurgen Habermas (1985) (9)
Theory and ethnography in the modern anthropology of India (2012) (9)
A Future South Africa: Visions, Strategies and Realities (1989) (9)
Religions and Globalisation (2003) (8)
Sociology and Theology (1967) (8)
Aspiring to freedom : commentaries on John Paul II's encyclical The Social concerns of the Church (1988) (8)
The Hospital: On the Interface Between Secularity and Religion (2015) (7)
“…The Holy Catholic Church, the Communion of Saints” (2008) (7)
Marxism and sociology;: Views from Eastern Europe (1969) (7)
Becoming a Member of Society—Socialization (2003) (7)
The Anthropology of Values: Essays in Honour of Georg Pfeffer (2010) (7)
Secular Theology and the Rejection of the Supernatural: Reflections on Recent Trends (1977) (7)
The Pluralistic Situation and the Coming Dialogue between the World Religions (1981) (7)
Assessing the relevance and effects of ‘key emotional episodes’ for the fieldwork process (2009) (7)
The Capitalist Spirit: Toward a Religious Ethic of Wealth Creation (2009) (7)
The Hidden Form of Capital: Introduction: Spiritual, Social, Human, and Financial Capital (2010) (6)
Response by Fenggang Yang: Agency-Driven Secularization and Chinese Experiments in Multiple Modernities (2014) (6)
“…The Resurrection of the Body, and the Life Everlasting” (2008) (6)
The Sociology of Knowledge and the Nature of Social Knowledge@@@Max Scheler 1874-1928: An Intellectual Portrait@@@The Phenomenology of the Social World@@@The Social Construction of Reality@@@Studies in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (1968) (6)
Modernisation and religion (1981) (6)
The modern anthropology of India : ethnography, themes and theory (2013) (6)
Ultimate Ambiguities : Investigating Death and Liminality (2016) (6)
The structure of freedom : correlations, causes, and cautions (1991) (6)
Two Cheers for the Affluent Society: A Spirited Defense of Economic Growth by Wilfred Beckerman (St. Martin's Press; 238 pp.; $7.95) (1975) (6)
Church Commitment in an American Suburb [An analysis of the decision to join ] (1962) (6)
Social Interaction in Everyday Life (2017) (5)
Redeeming Laughter, the Comic Dimension of Human Experience (1998) (5)
From Empire to Republic: Post-World War I Austria (2010) (5)
Reflections on the 25th Anniversary of the Social Construction of Reality (2000) (4)
Religious Establishment and Theological Education (1962) (4)
Introduction: The many Indias: The whole and its parts (2013) (4)
Feeding, Sharing and Devouring: Ritual and Society in Highland Odisha, India (2015) (4)
Periphery and centre (2007) (4)
SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF MENTAL REPRESENTATIONS OF EXPONENTIAL FUNCTIONS - A CASE STUDY WITH PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS (2002) (4)
GLOBAL PLURALISM AND RELIGION (2005) (4)
Toward a critique of modernity (1976) (4)
Relationship of Degree of Self-Esteem to Gossiping Behavior (1959) (4)
Dimensions of Indigeneity in Highland Odisha, India (2014) (3)
Capitalism and equality in the Third World (1987) (3)
Movement and Revolution.@@@Blueprint of Revolution: The Rebel, The Party, The Techniques of Revolt. (1971) (3)
Speaking to the Third World:Essays on Democracy and Development (1985) (3)
Feeding the Dead: Rituals of Transformation among the Gadaba of Koraput (2001) (3)
The culture of liberty: An agenda (1998) (3)
The Gadaba and the "non-ST" Desia of Koraput, Orissa (2002) (3)
National Sovereignty and World Unity (1945) (2)
Creator of Heaven and Earth (2008) (2)
11. Expressions of religiosity and blasphemy in modern societies (2006) (2)
The Bluing of America (1971) (2)
Religion as a Transnational Force (2012) (2)
Health, lifestyle and environment : countering the panic (1991) (2)
Conceptualizing and creating society in Highland Orissa : Descent, territory and sacrificial communion (2009) (2)
Pirámides de sacrificio: ética política y cambio social (1979) (1)
Haemorrhoids treated by cryotherapy. (1984) (1)
Business and Politics in Europe, 1900–1970: The Gildemeester Organisation for Assistance to Emigrants and the expulsion of Jews from Vienna, 1938–1942 (2003) (1)
“He Suffered Under Pontius Pilate, was Crucified, Died and was Buried” (2008) (1)
Theological Table-Talk: A Funeral in Calcutta (1979) (1)
Protocol of a damnation: A novel (1975) (1)
Gilgamesh on the Washington Shuttle (1977) (1)
Dialogue between Religious Traditions in an Age of Relativity (2010) (1)
The Political Management of Pluralism (2014) (1)
A Capitalist Manifesto@@@The Capitalist Revolution: Fifty Propositions about Prosperity, Equality and Liberty. (1987) (1)
Our Economic Culture (2017) (1)
Feeding Gods, Feeding Guests: Sacrifice and Hospitality among the Gadaba of Highland Orissa (India) (2011) (1)
Introduction: The Anthropology of Values (2010) (1)
Religion in a revolutionary society : delivered at Christ Church, Alexandria, Virginia, on February 4, 1974 (1974) (1)
Languages of Murder (1972) (1)
Social change and the vocation of Sociologists (1991) (1)
Rajasthan: Anthropological perspectives on tribal identity MAXINE WEISGRAU (2013) (1)
Godroads: Modalities of Conversion in India (2019) (1)
The Modern Anthropology of India (2013) (1)
Observations from America (2006) (1)
Toward a New Paradigm for Religion in a Pluralist Age (2020) (1)
Capitalism and equality in America (1987) (1)
The Inventiveness of a tradition: Structural anthropology in the Netherlands from an outsider’s perspective (2009) (1)
The Neoconservatives: The Men Who Are Changing America's Politics by Peter Steinfels (Simon & Schuster; 335 pp.; $11.95) (1979) (1)
Response by Nancy T. Ammerman: Modern Altars in Everyday Life (2014) (1)
I Believe in the Holy Spirit (2008) (1)
Secular branches, religious roots (1982) (1)
Sacrificial food, the person and the Gadaba ritual system (2007) (1)
Good News From India (1976) (1)
Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics@@@Cultural Analysis: The Work of Peter L. Berger, Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault and Jurgen Habermas (1985) (1)
Conclusion: General Observations on Normative Conflicts and Mediation (2018) (1)
Epilogue. Studying religion in context: diversity and commonalities in approaches (2021) (0)
11. Interlude: The Eternal Return of Folly (2014) (0)
‘Do you want to see the real India?’: An anthropological reading of the film Slumdog Millionaire (2009) (0)
Chapter 4: The Secular Discourse (2014) (0)
Special Section 'Cereal Belongings' (2018) (0)
Sociology of Knowledge (2018) (0)
Death, ritual, and effervescence (2016) (0)
Can Memory Fill In Gaps of Memory? Applications of the Cognitive Science of Religion to the History of Religions (2016) (0)
A Sociological Reader on Complex Organisations (2nd ed.), Amitai Etzioni (ed.), New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969, pp. xvi + 576 (1970) (0)
Remembering, Representing, and Forgetting: Christoph von Fürer Haimendorf and the Anthropology of India (2018) (0)
6. Interlude: Brief Reflections on Jewish Humor (2014) (0)
Feeding, Sharing and Devouring (2015) (0)
II. Comic Forms of Expression (1997) (0)
He was Conceived by the Power of the Holy Spirit and Born of the Virgin Mary (2008) (0)
Who's afraid of religious values? (1993) (0)
South Africa in comparative context (2019) (0)
The Lost and Saved: A Memoir of the Persecution of Jews in Vienna and Budapest (2010) (0)
Gadaba: Society on the Menu (2019) (0)
7. The Comic as Diversion: Benign Humor (2014) (0)
Reader ’ s Response The Assault on Liberalism (2003) (0)
Books in review (1985) (0)
Chapter 6: The Political Management of Pluralism (2014) (0)
Evangelical Christianity in a Post-Christian World (2014) (0)
Introduction: Religion as Relation (2019) (0)
Gehlen y las instituciones (1995) (0)
370 Carolyn Gratton (1969) (0)
4 Homo ridens: Physiologie und Psychologie (2014) (0)
Elements of Terrorism (1976) (0)
126 Carolyn Gratton (1972) (0)
Culture and Socioeconomic Change (2017) (0)
The Culture of Unbelief. (1972) (0)
Books in review (2000) (0)
The Expository Times (1999) (0)
Secretary of Europe: The Life of Friedrich Gentz, Enemy of Napoleon (1947) (0)
Do you want to see the real India (2009) (0)
Myths in Recent Austrian History: (2020) (0)
Introduction: Cereal Belongings – a cultural perspective on cereals as resource (2018) (0)
The Theology of Invasion (1976) (0)
Book Review:Towards a New Sociology-Essays and Studies. Martin Allwood (1965) (0)
III. Toward a Theology of the Comic (1997) (0)
14. The Comic as a Signal of Transcendence (2014) (0)
Exiles of Eden:: Vienna and the Viennese during and after World War I (2014) (0)
I. Anatomy of the Comic (1997) (0)
The Attitude of the Congress of Vienna Toward Nationalism in Germany, Italy and Poland (1952) (0)
Obituary Georg Pfeffer (1943-2020) (2021) (0)
The Role of the Classics (2019) (0)
SHELTERING UNDER THE SACRED CANOPY (2016) (0)
The Supreme Court Celebrates the Bicentennial (1976) (0)
review of: Vitebsky, Piers 2017: Living Without the Dead: Loss and Redemption in a Jungle Cosmos (2019) (0)
the Father Almighty (2008) (0)
Social Ethics Montage (1974) (0)
Panel discussion: Religion in the new Europe (2006) (0)
5. “You Are the Goat, I Am the Tiger”: The Rituals of Healing (2015) (0)
Obituary: Georg Pfeffer (17 January 1943–20 May 2020) (2021) (0)
Book Review: “Homo Religiosus” in Mircea Eliade: An Anthropological Evaluation (1978) (0)
8. The Comic as Consolation: Tragicomedy (2014) (0)
Recent Books on the Sociology of Religion@@@Pyramids of Sacrifice: Political Ethics and Social Change.@@@Changing Perspectives in the Scientific Study of Religion.@@@Religion in Radical Transition.@@@Suburban Religion: Churches and Synagogues in the American Experience.@@@On the Margin of the Visibl (1976) (0)
The Devil and the Pornography of Modern Consciousness (1974) (0)
“I Believe in Jesus Christ, His Only Son, Our Lord” (2008) (0)
[Medical and social relations: the campaign against tuberculosis in the Lyons region from 1918 to 1975]. (1986) (0)
Concept of Tribal Society (2002) (0)
Brill’s Encyclpedia on Hinduism (2011) (0)
Chapter 2: Pluralism and Individual Faith (2014) (0)
Barth and Debunking (1975) (0)
The American Family--What's the Prognosis? (1984) (0)
Chapter 3: Pluralism and Religious Institutions (2014) (0)
Haemarrhoids treated by cryotherapy: a critical analysis. (1983) (0)
Selected Studies in Marriage and the Family, R. F. Winch and L. W. Goodman. 3rd ed., Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968, pp. 630. $7.30 (paper) (1970) (0)
Beginnings of the New Sociology of Knowledge: Influences, Teachers, and Collaborators (2017) (0)
Religion and Desecularization (2017) (0)
Reception and Impact of the New Sociology of Knowledge (2017) (0)
The Stubborn Persistence of Debates about Religion: A Response to Friedrich Wilhelm Graf (2004) (0)
3. Laughing Monks: A Very Brief Sinitic Interlude (2014) (0)
Modernity and Pluralism (2017) (0)
1. The Comic Intrusion (2014) (0)
Religion as Relation : Studying Religion in Context (2019) (0)
The role of religion in the longer-range future, April 6, 7, and 8, 2006 (2008) (0)
The Asian Experience & Caribbean Development (1984) (0)
Closeness and Disjuncture: On Friendship in the Field (2018) (0)
Sacrificial Food, the Person and the Ritual System of the Gadaba (2007) (0)
Nationalities and National Minorities (1946) (0)
10. The Comic as Weapon: Satire (2014) (0)
Rupture and Resilience: Dynamics between a Hindu Reform Movement and an Indigenous Religion in Highland Odisha (2020) (0)
“Nicht lebensfähig?”: (2020) (0)
Knowledge and Reality (2017) (0)
5. Homo Ridiculus: Social Constructions of the Comic (2014) (0)
FINDINGS OF THE SURVEY OF CULTURAL VALUES OF YOUNGS IN KYZYLORDA REGION (0)
Confession, conflict, and community (1986) (0)
Truth in the Religions: A Sociological and Psychological Approach (1964) (0)
Menshikov A (2007) (0)
The Anatomy of Peace (1945) (0)
The Wearing of Death – Fear of Death and Social Deviance (2014) (0)
12. The Folly of Redemption (2014) (0)
4. Homo Ridens: Physiology and Psychology (2014) (0)
Good to eat, good to think and good to study: Food (and Drink) in Indian tribal societies (2016) (0)
Sociological Theory as an Area of International Collaboration (2018) (0)
The Genghis Khan Model of Imperialism (1977) (0)
Books in review (1984) (0)
Millet, Rice, and the Constitution of Society in Central India (2018) (0)
Morality and political action (1988) (0)
Feeding the Dead (2001) (0)
The Hartford Declaration (1975) (0)
“He Descended into Hell. On the Third Day he Rose Again. He Ascended into Heaven, and is Seated on the Right Hand of the Father. He will Come Again to Judge the Living and the Dead” (2008) (0)
A Conversation with Georg Pfeffer (2010) (0)
Chapter 1: The Pluralist Phenomenon (2014) (0)
Challenge and response: critiques of the Catholic Bishops' draft letter on the US economy (1985) (0)
The Third Jerusalem (1978) (0)
4. The Table of the Agnates: Rituals of the Annual Cycle (2015) (0)
In Praise of the Automobile (1974) (0)
Chapter 5: Religion and Multiple Modernities (2014) (0)
2. Philosophers of the Comic, and the Comedy of Philosophy (2014) (0)
13. Interlude: On Grim Theologians (2014) (0)
Religion as Value (2019) (0)
Cereal Belongings: special section (2018) (0)
Religion and Revolution by Guenter Lewy (Oxford University Press; 694 pp.; $17.50) (1974) (0)
Feeding, Sharing and Devouring: Alimentary Rituals and Cosmology in Highland Odisha, India (2017) (0)
Constitution of the United Nations of the World (1945) (0)
Prefatory Remarks, Self-Serving Explanations, and Unsolicited Compliments (1997) (0)
9. The Comic as Game of Intellect: Wit (2014) (0)
At the edge of hope: Christian laity in paradox (1978) (0)
Discovering Sociology “ The first wisdom of sociology is this — things are not what they seem . ” — (0)
The War over the Family: Capturing the Middle Ground@@@Shaping Tomorrow's Family: Theory and Policy for the 21st Century (1984) (0)
Letters from readers (1986) (0)
Liminal Bodies, Liminal Food: Hindu and Tribal Death Rituals Compared (2016) (0)
Beiträge zur Wissenssoziologie, Beiträge zur Religionssoziologie = Contributions to the sociology of knowledge, Contributions to the sociology of religion (1978) (0)
There is a Crucial Link Between Culture and Economics (2002) (0)
The Congress of Vienna: A Study in Allied Unity: 1812-1822 (1948) (0)
The Forgiveness of Sins (2008) (0)
Pioneers in World Order: An American Appraisal of the League of Nations. Edited by Harriet Eager Davis (1945) (0)
The Assault on Class (1972) (0)
Readings in Sociology (1999) (0)

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