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Max Weber in a theological perspective
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ISBN: 9042909447 9789042909441 Year: 2000 Volume: 21 Publisher: Leuven Peeters

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This book deals with the problem of how Christian theology can be integrated with secular thinking. It is claimed that since modern science applies many different perspectives, this integrative effort can only take place as a never-ending dialogue between different interpretations of both theology and science. Max Weber is often regarded as a classic interpreter of modern Western culture, and the investigation is a conversation between his thinking and Christian theology. interpretation of Max Weber's texts in regard to the function of views of life in modern society and suggesting one possible way of revising Christian theology so that it can be integrated with Weber's view on views of life, science and modernity. two basic challenges, namely an epistemological challenge and a cultural challenge. Christian theology, as classically formulated, has lost much of its credibility in the face of scientific discoveries and philosophical criticism. In Weber's view, it therefore is questionable if any well-educated person can be rationally justified in holding on to a traditional form of Christian faith. The cultural challenge implies, that if religion divorces itself from modernity, it risks becoming a form of escapism and thus contributing to alienation. challenges, it is claimed that Christian theology should be oriented towards praxis rather than towards metaphysical speculation. The author here suggests one way of formulating such a theological perspective. This suggestion is based around the understanding of the symbol of the kingdom of God as a way to formulate a Christian utopian realism


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Max Weber and The Protestant ethic : twin histories
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ISBN: 9780198702528 0198702523 019880766X 0191006955 0191772216 019253467X 9780191006951 Year: 2014 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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This book presents an entirely new portrait of Max Weber, one of the most prestigious social theorists in recent history, using his most famous work, 'The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism', as its central point of reference. It offers an intellectual biography of Weber framed along historical lines - something which has never been done before. It re-evaluates 'The Protestant Ethic' - a text surprisingly neglected by scholars - supplying a missing intellectual and chronological centre to Weber's life and work. Peter Ghosh suggests that 'The Protestant Ethic' is the link which unites the earlier (pre-1900) and later (post-1910) phases of his career. He offers a series of fresh perspectives on Weber's thought in various areas - charisma, capitalism, law, politics, rationality, bourgeois life, and (not least) Weber's unusual religious thinking, which was 'remote from god' yet based on close dialogue with Christian theology. This approach produces a convincing view of Max Weber as a whole; while previously the sheer breadth of his intellectual interests has caused him to be read in a fragmentary way according to a series of specialized viewpoints, this volume seeks to put him back together again as a real individual. --Back cover.


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Rationale Schiiten : ismailitische Weltsichten nach einer postkolonialen Lektüre von Max Webers Rationalismusbegriff.
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ISSN: 09392580 ISBN: 3110273748 9783110273748 3110273853 1283628376 9786613940827 3110273845 9783110273847 6613940828 9781283628372 Year: 2012 Volume: Bd. 59 Publisher: Berlin de Gruyter

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Der Rationalismus ist ein zentraler Pfeiler des modernen okzidentalen Selbstverständnisses. Der Begriff ist aber, wie eine postkoloniale Lektüre des Begriffs in Max Webers religionsvergleichenden Studien zeigt, ebenso ein Instrument zur Hierarchisierung und Essentialisierung im interreligiösen und interkulturellen Vergleich. Dabei wendet sich der Rationalismusbegriff nicht nur in Gestalt des Orientalismus gegen den "irrationalen" Islam, sondern als dessen spiegelbildliche Rückseite bestimmt er ebenso die idealisierte Selbstdarstellung des Westens als Okzidentalismus und marginalisiert dabei dessen Irrationalität. Um diese Polarität im Religionsvergleich zu überwinden, werden die rationalen wie irrationalen Anteile schiitischer Theologie hinsichtlich ihrer Funktion zur Konstruktion einer sinnhaften Weltsicht in Beziehung gesetzt. In drei Stadien der ismailitischen Geschichte wird das Verhältnis von sozio-politischer Lebenswelt der Gemeinschaft und zentralen Konzepten der Theologie untersucht. In der Analyse von Imamatslehre, Kosmogonie und Eschatologie vor, während und nach dem Fatimidenreich offenbart sich die Dynamik von Rationalität und Irrationalität religiöser Weltbilder jenseits hegemonialer Imaginationen und hierarchisierender Vergleiche.


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L'Éthique protestante de Max Weber et les historiens français (1905-1979)
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ISBN: 9782503597836 2503597831 250359784X 9782503597843 Year: 2022 Publisher: Turnhout, Belgium Brepols

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"Voici un siècle que Max Weber est mort. Ses thèses, parfois audacieuses, font encore couler beaucoup d'encre aujourd'hui. Auteur en sciences humaines parmi les plus lus, cités, convoqués dans la sphère publique et intellectuelle, le sociologue allemand du début du XXe siècle avait avancé que l'essor du capitalisme au XVIe siècle puisait certaines de ses origines dans la conduite quotidienne des protestants puritains anglais. C'est la thèse d'un chercheur inclassable. Les historiens francophones, de Lucien Febvre à Fernand Braudel, en passant par Henri Pirenne, seront des obstacles, à de rares exceptions, à la diffusion des thèses de Weber, qui mirent plusieurs décennies avant d'être traduites en français. Ce livre porte sur l'histoire d'un refus, d'une absence de désir d'une communauté de savoir à l'égard d'un auteur auquel on reproche de maltraiter la causalité en histoire, de pratiquer l'anachronisme, le jugement de valeur, de jargonner, d'incarner une science allemande dont la rationalité n'a pas évité deux guerres mondiales et d'avoir lancé un défi hors norme à la notion de discipline. Cette occultation de Weber donne à voir un impensé des intellectuels et des historiens dans la France du XXe siècle. Ce qu'ils n'ont pas lu ou refusent de comprendre nous informe avant tout sur eux-mêmes." --

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