Weber And The Persistence Of Religion

Author : Joseph W. H. Lough
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134289766
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Weber and the Persistence of Religion written by Joseph W. H. Lough and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is an increasing interest in religion and belief and the diverse forms these take in the contemporary world. This timely book provides a unique analysis of these issues through a discussion of the work of Marx and Weber. Taking Max Weber’s interpretations of capitalism and religion as its point of departure, Weber and the Persistence of Religion re-examines a wide range of classical and contemporary texts, including Immanuel Kant, Foucault and Jean Baudrillard, to help explain the peculiar character of religion and spirituality in mature capitalist societies. This book shows how the peculiar disembodied character of contemporary spirituality and religion, along with the disenchanted character of public life, may be formally related to the increasingly disembodied, immaterial character of value in capitalist societies. It will be of interest to students and scholars of Social Theory, History, the Sociology of Religion and Philosophy.

Author : Max Weber
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807042052
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sociology of Religion written by Max Weber and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 1993-04-15 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 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.

Author : Andrew M. Greeley
Publisher : Herder & Herder
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Persistence of Religion written by Andrew M. Greeley and published by Herder & Herder. This book was released on 1973 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Series statement also appears as: The New concilium. Includes bibliographical references.

Author : H. M. Vroom
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042021551
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wrestling with God and with Evil written by H. M. Vroom and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fact of evil continues to raises questions - questions about the relationship between God and evil but also questions about human involvement in it. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, it is now time to see the existence of evil not just as a problem for belief in God; it is a problem for belief in humanity itself as well. For human involvement in evil is not simply a matter of coping with evil but also concerns the fact that humans themselves often seem to do wrong and evil inevitably. Human finitude, ignorance and the unforeseeable consequences of good intentions as well as of neglect can often lead to tragedy. This volume contains contributions from an equal number of male and female scholars in Western Europe and America. It contains discussions of thinkers like Kant, Kierkegaard, Barth, Weil, Levinas, Naber, Caputo and Johnson. It deals with issues like tragedy, finitude, critiques of Western culture, violence and God, and the question of whether theodicies are needed or are even honest. This volume offers an interesting survey of 'wrestling with God and evil' from a variety of perspectives in the philosophy of religion on both sides of the Atlantic.

Author : Christopher Adair-Toteff
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137454792
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fundamental Concepts in Max Weber’s Sociology of Religion written by Christopher Adair-Toteff and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-14 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book helps explain some of Max Weber's key concepts such as charisma, asceticism, mysticism, pariah-people, prophets, salvation, and theodicy and places them within the context of Weber's sociology of religion.

Author : Christopher Adair-Toteff
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161541377
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Max Weber's Sociology of Religion written by Christopher Adair-Toteff and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2016-02-19 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Ronald H. Preston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and the Persistence of Capitalism written by Ronald H. Preston and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Curtis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521767253
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Orientalism and Islam written by Michael Curtis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-08 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an historical analysis of the theme of Oriental despotism, Michael Curtis reveals the complex positive and negative interaction between Europe and the Orient. The book also criticizes the misconception that the Orient was the constant victim of Western imperialism and the view that Westerners cannot comment objectively on Eastern and Muslim societies. The book views the European concept of Oriental despotism as based not on arbitrary prejudicial observation, but rather on perceptions of real processes and behavior in Eastern systems of government. Curtis considers how the concept developed and was expressed in the context of Western political thought and intellectual history, and of the changing realities in the Middle East and India. The book includes discussion of the observations of Western travelers in Muslim countries and analysis of the reflections of six major thinkers: Montesquieu, Edmund Burke, Tocqueville, James and John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, and Max Weber.

Author : John Bellamy Foster
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583679766
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capitalism in the Anthropocene written by John Bellamy Foster and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last 11,700 years, during which human civilization developed, the earth has existed within what geologists refer to as the Holocene Epoch. Now science is telling us that the Holocene Epoch in the geological time scale ended, replaced by the onset of a new, more dangerous Anthropocene Epoch, which began around 1950. The Anthropocene Epoch is characterized by an “anthropogenic rift” in the biological cycles of the Earth System, marking a changed reality in which human activities are now the main geological force impacting the earth as a whole, generating at the same time an existential crisis for the world’s population. What caused this massive shift in the history of the earth? In this comprehensive study, John Bellamy Foster tells us that a globalized system of capital accumulation has induced humanity to foul its own nest. The result is a planetary emergency that threatens all present and future generations, throwing into question the continuation of civilization and ultimately the very survival of humanity itself. Only by addressing the social aspects of the current planetary emergency, exploring the theoretical, historical, and practical dimensions of the capitalism’s alteration of the planetary environment, is it possible to develop the ecological and social resources for a new journey of hope.

Author : Wolfgang Schluchter
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520056596
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rationalism, Religion, and Domination written by Wolfgang Schluchter and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Publication of this material in English should be a major event in American Weber studies. Together with Economy and Society, Weber's comparative studies in the sociology of religion represent not only his own central contribution to theoretical sociology, but also one of the most ambitious and fruitful research programs in the history of modern social theory. Schluchter analyzes both of these projects and shows how they are related. There is nothing in the Anglo-American literature on Weber's sociology of religion that can match the rigor and thoroughness of these essays. They should raise the standards of scholarly debate concerning both the general theoretical significance and the details of Weber's sociology of religion."--Guy Oakes, Monmouth University "There is next to nothing in the field of Weber interpretation that reaches the superior grasp and breadth of knowledge displayed in these essays. Exciting and illuminating, they should be essential reading for anyone interested in comparative religion and domination."--Thomas Burger, Southern Illinois University