El lazo entre sociologia y sociologia de la religion ha sido muy estrecho. Y la orientacion personal de cada sociologo emerge claramente en sus definiciones de la religion.
Roberto Cipriani, Italian social scientist Born Occupation Professor of at the and President of the European Council of National Associations of Sociology Known for Analytical contributions to the concept of Roberto Cipriani (b., 1945) is an Italian. He is professor of. 'He has written extensively on popular religion, the sacred and secularization', and is known for his unconventional applications of the 'concept of 'diffused religion' (religione diffusa) and then that of 'religion of values' (religione dei valori)'. He has made important analytical contributions to the concept of by using. With diffused religion, 'Cipriani seeks to express a kind of faith reference, of religious sentiment which is a part of the culture of a population and which finds continuous modalities of adaptation in relation to the changing times'. 'He also underlines what he calls the 'meta-institutional' character of this religion, even if, he says, these characteristics have a religious institutional origin'.