Max Weber
1864-1920
"But it is, of course, not my aim to substitute for a
one-sided materialistic an equally one-sided
spiritualistic causal interpretation of culture and
history. Each is equally possible, but each, if it does
not serve as the preparation, but as the conclusion
of an investigation, accomplishes equally little in the
interest of historical truth."
-The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, p. 183
Weber, Max. 1930. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. translated by Talcott Parsons. London: Routledge.
_______. 1946. From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology. edited by H.H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills. New York:
Oxford Univ. Press.
_______. 1951. The Religion of China. New York: Free Press.
_______. 1952. Ancient Judaism. New York: Free Press.
_______. 1963. The Sociology of Religion. Boston: Beacon.
_______. 1978. Economy and Society. 2 Vols. edited by Guenther Roth and Claus Wittich. Berkeley: University
of California Press.
_______. 1988. Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Religionssoziologie. 3 Bände. Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr.
_______.1996. The Religion of India: The Sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal.
_______. 2002. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. translated by Stephen Kalberg. Los Angeles: Roxbury.
Secondary Literature:
Bendix, Reinhard. 1960. Max Weber: An Intellectual Portrait. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Kalberg, Stephen. 1980. "Max Weber’s Types of Rationality: Cornerstones for the Analysis of Rationalization Processes of
History." American Journal of Sociology 85:1145-1179.
_______. 1990. "The Rationalization of Action in Max Weber’s Sociology of Religion,” Sociological Theory 8:58-84.
Pratap Bhanu. 2001. "The Ethical Irrationality of the World: Weber and Hindu Ethics." Critical Horizons 2:203-225.
Mommsen, Wolfgang. 1974. The Age of Bureaucracy: Perspectives on the Political Sociology of Max Weber. New York:
Harper & Row.
Nelson, Benjamin. 1973. "Weber’s Protestant Ethic: Its Origins, Wanderings, and Foreseeable Futures." Beyond The
Classics: Essays in the Scientific Study of Religion, edited by Charles Glock and Phillip Hammond, 71-130.
New York: Harper and Row.
Rodinson, Maxime. 1974. Islam and Capitalism. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Schluchter, Wolfgang. 1976. "Die Paradoxie der Rationalisierung.' Zeitschrift für Soziologie 5:256-284.
______ . 1981. The Rise of Western Rationalism: Max Weber’s Developmental History. Berkeley: University of
California Press.
______ . 1983. "Einleitung. Max Webers Konfuzianismusstudie- Versuch einer Einordnung." In Max Webers Studie über
Konfuzianismus und Taoismus:Interpretation und Kritik, edited by Wolfgang Schluther, 11-54. Frankfurt:
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_______. 1984. "Weltflüchtiges Erlösungsstreben und organische Sozialethik. Überlegungen zu Max Webers Analysen
der indischen Kulturreligionen." In Max Webers Studie über Hinduismus und Buddhismus, edited by Wolfgang
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_______. 1988a. Religion und Lebensführung. Band 1. Studien zu Max Weber Kultur und Wertheorie. Frankfurt:
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_______. 1988b. Religion und Lebensführung. Band 2. Studien zu Max Weber s Religions und Herrschaftsoziologie.
Frankfurt: Suhrkamp.
_______. 1988c. "Einleitung. Religion, politische Herrschaft, Wirtschaft und bürgerliche Lebensführung: Die okzidentale
Sonderentwicklung." In Max Webers Sicht des Okzidentalen Christentums: Interpretation und Kritik, edited by
Wolfgang Schluchter, 112-128. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp.
_______. 1989. Rationalism, Religion, and Domination: A Weberian Perspective. Berkeley: University of California
Press.
_______. 1999. "Hindrances to Modernity: Max Weber on Islam." In Max Weber and Islam, edited by Toby Huff and
Wolfgang Schluchter, 53-138. New Brunswick: Transaction.
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