Translated by Ephraim Fischoff
With a new Foreword by Ann Swidler
With a new Foreword by Ann Swidler
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Weber was brilliant and the first to attempt a complete analysis of religion from animism to Christianity. The problem is Weber died before he could complete what had begun as a multi-volume explication of religion in general. The book was compiled by his wife and a friend from notes he had made, so oftentimes Weber states he will go into greater depth with a train of thought later, but unfortunately he was never able to follow up. The other complication is Talcott Parsons' poor translation, so it is incredibly complex to pick through lengthy thoughts strung together in single sentences. Still incredibly thought-provoking and all-encompassing. Worth the read for anyone wanting to delve into the purposes and effects of religion in and on society and vice versa.
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Talcott Parsons wrote an introduction that is included in this English translation of The Sociology of Religion by Max Weber. I now own the same translation of this work by Weber as a part of volume 1 of Weber's Economy and Society. Parsons tries to provide the abstract ideas which make Weber's particular observations about certain functions of religion important for social science. The key idea for me is a secular calling. The institutional thinking of religion makes a personal call from God a key to turning points in individual lives. As a society, American attempts to make a Jesus persiflage identity theft the comining factor joining God's own skew leaders as partners in America for the fulfillment of entertainment values stimulating a nation of shoppers is putting the monetary net down on the side of the boat which has political jellyfish.
My most famous plaything is sleep. I even like a song by Gordon Lightfoot about:
Talking In Your Sleep (Album Version).
I heard you talking in the night,
that's right,
Yes, I heard you call.
I couldn't quite make out the name you spoke,
It's a name I don't recall.
I would rather be the Martin Luther Stonehood of rock and roll than any professional position within American society. People would like to attack banks in ways that never got mentioned in the Bible or the works of Max Weber. There were hep-hep riots in Europe, according to the introduction to a literary anthology:
The German-Jewish Dialogue: An Anthology of Literary Texts, 1749-1993 (Oxford World's Classics).
Jerusalem is lost in Latin does not have a J: H... est perdita provided the initials hep for rioting mobs.
A crowd that sticks around for a thousand years while the monetary spin devils are on top might try to disguise itself as a religion so it makes people get very sleepy, but the Jewish reaction to hep-hep riots was that Christians only unite to wipe out a scapegoat for what is bothering them.
The current political psychosexual drama in which ego boundaries are shattered by a sacrament administered with:
This is my body. Take and eat.
is disguised by religious rituals in which nobody expects to get their rocks off. You people need to sleep for a long time before saying anything about who is calling you.
My most famous plaything is sleep. I even like a song by Gordon Lightfoot about:
Talking In Your Sleep (Album Version).
I heard you talking in the night,
that's right,
Yes, I heard you call.
I couldn't quite make out the name you spoke,
It's a name I don't recall.
I would rather be the Martin Luther Stonehood of rock and roll than any professional position within American society. People would like to attack banks in ways that never got mentioned in the Bible or the works of Max Weber. There were hep-hep riots in Europe, according to the introduction to a literary anthology:
The German-Jewish Dialogue: An Anthology of Literary Texts, 1749-1993 (Oxford World's Classics).
Jerusalem is lost in Latin does not have a J: H... est perdita provided the initials hep for rioting mobs.
A crowd that sticks around for a thousand years while the monetary spin devils are on top might try to disguise itself as a religion so it makes people get very sleepy, but the Jewish reaction to hep-hep riots was that Christians only unite to wipe out a scapegoat for what is bothering them.
The current political psychosexual drama in which ego boundaries are shattered by a sacrament administered with:
This is my body. Take and eat.
is disguised by religious rituals in which nobody expects to get their rocks off. You people need to sleep for a long time before saying anything about who is calling you.
31 of 72 people found the following review helpful
By Mike Fisher
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Weber's book was groundbreaking when it was first published. Even today, it is considered a classic. However, the reader should be informed that Weber's book is full of white Germanic Christian bias, a bias so strong at times that it harms the author's credibility. However, if read in tandem with later works which critique it, Weber's "Sociology of Religion" provides a glimpse of early 20th century sociological methodology
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