RT Article T1 Religião na perspectiva sociológica clássica: considerações sobre Durkheim, Marx e Weber JF Sacrilegens VO 14 IS 2 SP 3 OP 24 A1 Costa, Waldney de Souza Rodrigues LA Portuguese PB Instituto de Ciências Humanas, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora YR 2017 UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1837977488 AB Given the relevant contribution of the Social Sciences to the theory of religion, it is intended with this text to offer a didactic resource to students who enter the Religions Studies, as well as who wants to start in Sociology of Religion. It seeks to briefly describe how religion is approached by Marx, Weber and Durkheim, considered the classics of Sociology. After a brief exposition of the place that religion occupies in the social theory of each one separately, underlining their most relevant contributions and punctuating the main criticisms perceived by commentators, a comparison is made between the sociological approaches of the religion using the separation of the social theory in three dimensions: sociological theory, theory of modernity and political theory. K1 Classical sociology K1 Social Theory K1 sociology of religion K1 Religion DO 10.34019/2237-6151.2017.v14.26975