Anheier, H. K., Civil Society - Measurement, Evaluation, Policy, London, 2004

Cohen, J. L., Arrato, A., Civil Society and Political Theory, Cambridge/Mass./London, 1997

Dekker, P., De oplossing van de civil society. Over vrijwillige associaties in tijden van vervagende grenzen, SCP, 's Gravenhage, 2002. Op de site is het boek in pdf-formaat te lezen.

Eberly, D. E. (ed.), The Essential Civil Society Reader - The Classic Essays, Lanham, 2000

Ehrenberg, J., Civil Society: The Critical History of an Idea, New York, 1999

Edwards, M., Civil Society, Cambridge, 2004

Habermas, J., The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgois Society, Cambridge, 1991. Vertaling van Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit: Untersuchungen zu einer Kategorie der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main, 1990

Gruppelaar, J. (red), Burgers en hun bindingen, Budel, 2000

Harskamp, Anton van, Van fundi's, spirituelen en moralisten. Over civil society en religie, Kampen, 2003

Kaviraj, S., Khilnani, S. (eds.), Civil Society: History and Possibilities, Cambridge, 2001

Seligman, A. B., The Idea of Civil Society, New York, 1992

Tester, K., Civil Society, New York, 1992

Ammerman, N., “North American Protestant Fundamentalism”, in: Marty, M. E., Scott Appleby, R., (eds.), Fundamentalisms Observed, Chicago, 1991

Ammerman, N., “Re-Awakening a Sleeping Giant: Fundamentalists in Late Twentieth Century U.S. Society”, in: Haar, G. ter, Busuttill, J. (eds.), The Freedom to Do God’s Will: Religious Fundamentalism and Social Change, London, 2002

Armstrong, K., De strijd om God: een geschiedenis van het fundamentalisme, Amsterdam, 2000

Harskamp, A. van, 'De tegen-wereld van het christelijk fundamentalisme', in: Harskamp, A. van, e.a., Fundamentalisme: tussen afkeer en herkenning, Zoetermeer, 1999

Marty, M., Scott Appleby, R. (eds.), The Fundamentalism Project. Vooral Volume 3: Fundamentalisms and the State: Remaking Polities, Economies, and Militance, Chicago, 1993

Riesebrodt, M., Pious Passion: The Emergence of Modern Fundamentalism in the United States and Iran, Berkely, 1998

Casanova, J., 'Civil Society and Religion: Retrospective Reflections on Catholicism and Prospective Reflections on Islam' in: Social Research, 68 (2001) nr. 4

Gellner, E., Conditions of Liberty, Civil Society and Its Rivals, London, 1994

Hanafi, H., 'Alternative Conceptions of Civil Society: A Reflective Islamic Approach', in: Chambers, S., Kymlicka, W., Alternative Conceptions of Civil Society, Princeton, 2002

Kalami, M., 'Civil society and Islam: a sociological persepective' in: European Journal of Sociology, 42 (2001) nr. 3

Norton, A. R., (ed.) Civil Society in the Middle East Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia, Leiden, 1995

Sajoo, Amyn B., Civil Society in the Muslim World: Contemporary Perspectives, London/New York, 2002

Sivan, E., 'The Islamic Resurgence: Civil Society Strikes Back’, in: Journal of Contemporary History, 25 (1990) nr. 2/3

Civil society in Egypte

Abu-Lughod, L., 'Dramatic Reversals: Political Islam and Egyptian Television', in: Beckerlegge, G. (ed.), From Sacred Text to Internet, Aldershot, 2001

Asad, T., Thinking About Secularism and Law in Egypt, ISIM Papers Series, 2001

Herbert, D., 'Representing Islam: The "Islamization" of Egypt Society 1970 - 2000', in: Beckerlegge, G. (ed.), From Sacred Text to Internet, Aldershot, 2001

Herbert, D., Religion and Civil Society: Rethinking Public Religion in the Contemporary World, Aldershot, 2003. Vooral hoofdstuk 9: 'After Nasser, The Islamization of Civil Society and the Public Sphere in Egypt'.

Civil society in Turkije

Heyd, U., 'The Ottoman 'Ulema and Westernization in the Time of Selim III and Mahmud II' in: The Modern Middle East , New York, 1993

Kadoglu, A., 'Civil Society, Islam and Democracy in Turkey: A Study of Three Islamic Non-Governmental Organizations' in: The Muslim World, 2005, vol. 95, nr. 1

Seckinelgin, H., 'Contractions of Sociocultural Reflex: Civil Society in Turkey' in: Glasius, M., Lewis, D., Seckinelgin, H. (eds.), Exploring Civil Society: Political and Cultural Contexts, London, 2004

Steunebrink, G., Zweerde, E. van der. (eds.) Civil Society, Religion, and the Nation. Modernization in Intercultural Context: Russia, Japan, Turkey., Amsterdam/New York, 2004

White, J., Islamist Mobilization in Turkey: A Study in Vernacular Politics, Seattle/London, 2002

Augustinus, De civitate dei, 427.
Via internet de Engelse versie: The City of God

Althusius, J., Politica methodice digesta, atque exemplis sacris et profanis illustrata, 1614.
Via internet de Engelse versie (abridged): Politics Methodically Set Forth, and Illustrated with Sacred and Profane Examples

Locke, J., Second Treatise on Government, Londen, 1690.
Via internet de Engelse versie: Second Treatise on Government

Rousseau, J., Du contrat social, Amsterdam, 1762.
Via internet de Franse versie: Du Contrat Social ou Principes du droit politique, de Engelse versie: The Social Contract or Principles of Political Right.

Ferguson, A, An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Edingburgh, 1767
Via internet de Engelse versie: An Essay on the History of Civil Society

Hegel, G. F. W., Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts, Berlijn, 1821
Via internet de Engelse versie Philosophy of Right.

Tocqueville, A. de, De la démocratie en Amérique I & II, 1835; 1840
Via internet de Franse versie: De la démocratie en Amérique I en De la démocratie en Amérique II en de Engelse versie: Democracy in America I & II

Durkheim, E., Les formes élémentaires de la via religieuse. Le système totémique en Australie,
Via internet de Franse versie (verschillende formaten): Les formes élémentaires.