The Religion of India
Author: Max Weber
Publisher: New York : Free Press
Published: 1962
Total Pages: 408
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Max Weber
Publisher: New York : Free Press
Published: 1962
Total Pages: 408
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Thomas Ertman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-03-24
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 1107133874
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book identifies what is living and what is dead in Max Weber's analyses of China, India and Ancient Israel.
Author: Hans H. Gerth
Publisher: Sanctum Books
Published: 2023-06-15
Total Pages: 965
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Max Weber's early twentieth-century study of the religions and civilization of India is a great pioneering adventure in the sociology of ancient India. Weber's insight and analysis - especially his application of the sociological perspective to the work of classical Indologists and the religious texts available to him - were to add much to the store of the social scientist. Later, historians and archaeologists were to confirm a surprising number of Weber's theories. The central concern of this and other of Weber's studies of countries we today describe as "developing" was with the obstacles to industrialization and modernization. Weber anticipated by several decades a problem that has come to occupy the post-World War II world. Why had these countries failed to display the full consequence of these rationalizing tendencies which, to Weber's mind had so powerful an affinity with the scientific technical transformation of the West. He isolated religious institutions and the key social strata which mediate them to wider society as crucial for the original formation of social-psychological orientations to the practical concerns of life and, hence, for receptivity or resistance to industrialization.
Author: Max Weber
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2010-05-11
Total Pages: 522
ISBN-13: 143911918X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Weber’s classic study which deals specifically with: Types of Asceticism and the Significance of Ancient Judaism, History and Social Organization of Ancient Palestine, Political Organization and Religious Ideas in the Time of the Confederacy and the Early Kings, Political Decline, Religious Conflict and Biblical Prophecy.
Author: Sara R. Farris
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2013-09-05
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9004254099
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Max Weber's writings in The Sociology of Religion are today acknowledged as a classic of the social sciences in the twentieth century. They are key texts for understanding Weber’s central sociological concepts concerning Western and Eastern ‘civilisations’. This book argues that the concept and problematic of personality plays a pivotal role within these works. Providing a detailed reconstruction of this concept within Weber’s systematic studies of world religions as well as throughout his methodological and political writings, this book shows its complex development within three strictly related problematics associated with Weber’s influential comparative historical sociology and theory of social action – individuation, politics and orientalism. Together they shape and constitute what is distinctive in Max Weber’s theory of personality.
Author: Horst J. Helle
Publisher: Studies in Critical Social Science
Published: 2017-11-14
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9781608468393
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An insightful socio-cultural analysis of the differences in Chinese and Western relationships to the public and the private spheres.
Author: David N. Gellner
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780195666113
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Author: Christopher Adair-Toteff
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2016-02-19
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9783161541377
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume is a collection of ten articles by Christopher Adair-Toteff that examine the fundamental aspects of Max Weber's sociology of religion. They were published between 2002 and 2015 in various renowned journals and deal with various topics such as charisma, asceticism, mysticism, theodicy, prophets, and "Kulturprotestantismus." In his work, the author reflects the attempt to understand, clarify, and interpret key concepts and themes in Weber's sociology of religion.
Author: Stanislav Andreski
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-04-15
Total Pages: 173
ISBN-13: 1135657564
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For this important selection from Weber, sections of text from Weber's major works (Gesammelte, Aufsatze Zur Religionssoziologie, including The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism; General Economic History; and The Agrarian Sociology of Ancient Civilisations) have been carefully edited and substantially translated to form a coherent and integrated volume. Professor Andreski's aim has been to use Weber's own works to explain crucial turns in the evolution of societies and cultures, while eliminating the difficulties of language and frequent mistranslation which have previously made Weber so difficult and baffling for students new to his work. An essay by Andreski introduces the selections, which are centred on Weber's principal interest, the relationship between capitalism, religion and bureaucracy. He seeks to correct those misinterpretations of Weber's work which have stressed his classification, rather than his attempts to theorise and explain social phenomena on the basis of a comparitive analysis of universal historical trends. This book was first published in 1983.
Author: Ying-shih Yü
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2021-03-23
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 0231553609
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Why did modern capitalism not arise in late imperial China? One famous answer comes from Max Weber, whose The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism gave a canonical analysis of religious and cultural factors in early modern European economic development. In The Religions of China, Weber contended that China lacked the crucial religious impetus to capitalist growth that Protestantism gave Europe. The preeminent historian Ying-shih Yü offers a magisterial examination of religious and cultural influences in the development of China’s early modern economy, both complement and counterpoint to Weber’s inquiry. The Religious Ethic and Mercantile Spirit in Early Modern China investigates how evolving forms of Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism created and promulgated their own concepts of the work ethic from the late seventh century into the Qing dynasty. The book traces how religious leaders developed the spiritual significance of labor and how merchants adopted this religious work ethic, raising their status in Chinese society. However, Yü argues, China’s early modern mercantile spirit was restricted by the imperial bureaucratic priority on social order. He challenges Marxists who championed China’s “sprouts of capitalism” during the fifteenth through eighteenth centuries as well as other modern scholars who credit Confucianism with producing dramatic economic growth in East Asian countries. Yü rejects the premise that China needed an early capitalist stage of development; moreover, the East Asian capitalism that flourished in the later half of the twentieth century was essentially part of the spread of global capitalism. Now available in English translation, this landmark work has been greatly influential among scholars in East Asia since its publication in Chinese in 1987.