The second volume of the anthology "Classics of World Religious Studies" includes fragments from the works of the most prominent representatives of anthropological, psychological, sociological and philosophical approaches to the study of religion. The reader is given the opportunity to get acquainted with the texts of Herbert Spencer, Eduard Tylor, Andrew Lang, James Fraser, Robert Marett, Otto Pfleiderer, William James, Emil Durkheim, Max Weber, Nathan Söderblom, Heinrich Frick, Lucien Levy Brühl, Bronislaw Malinowski and Ernst Cassirer.