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100	1	0	_aTurner, Bryan S. _eauthor
245	0	0	_aMax Weber and the Sociology of Religion
260			_c2016.
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520			_aMax Weber is a dominating presence in western sociology, but his legacy remains a matter of considerable controversy. His influence is felt in the philosophy of social science, in theories of class, status and power, and of course in the various substantive areas where he had a lasting impact. However this article argues that his comparative studies of religion form the core of both substantive and theoretical interests. Firstly the interpretation of his oeuvre is skewed towards by excessive attention to the Protestant Ethic thesis, which was in fact only two essays that explored an issue that was already well known in German academic circles. Secondly Weber’s contribution to the study of Axial Age religions has only recently received adequate attention. The Axial Age religions emerging between 800 and 200 BCE created the foundations of the world religions through the idea of transcendence and developed a critical view of the everyday empirical world. Thus I argue that more attention should be given to his view of the interface between politics and religion. Weber pessimistically concluded that the world is dominated by ‘unbrotherliness’ and that the ethic of brotherly love in the major religions had come to nothing.
786	0		_nRevue internationale de philosophie | o 276 | 2 | 2016-06-02 | p. 141-150 | 0048-8143
856	4	1	_uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-internationale-de-philosophie-2016-2-page-141?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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