The Sociology of ReligionIn The Sociology of Religion, first published in the United States in 1963, Max Weber looks at the significant role religion has played in social change throughout history. The book was a formative text of the new discipline of sociology and has gone on to become a classic in the social sciences. |
Contents
Foreword by Ann Swidler | ix |
Translators Preface | xix |
Introduction by Talcott Parsons | xxix |
The Rise of Religions | 1 |
Gods Magicians and Priests | 20 |
The Idea of God Religious Ethics | 32 |
The Prophet | 46 |
The Religious Congregation Preaching | 60 |
The Different Roads to Salvation | 151 |
Asceticism Mysticism and Salvation | 166 |
Soteriology and Types of Salvation | 184 |
Religious Ethics the World Order | 207 |
The Relationship of Religion to Politics | 223 |
Judaism Christianity and the SocioEco | 246 |
The Attitude of the Other World Religions | 262 |
Chronological Summary of | 275 |
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