| Weber and the Persistence of Religion: Social Theory, Capitalism and the Sublime Contributor(s): Lough, Joseph W. H. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415343526 ISBN-13: 9780415343527 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $47.45 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2006 Annotation: This book presents a clear and compelling case for the intimate practical relationship between religion and capitalism. It signals a major change in how social scientists are beginning to interpret capitalism, religion and growing public hostility against secular society. It offers a new understanding of Weber and Weberian sociology and Marx's mature social theory and also contains significant commentary of figures such as Kant, Foucault and Lyotard. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Social Science | Sociology Of Religion |
| Dewey: 306.6 |
| LCCN: 2005031150 |
| Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.36" W x 9.42" (0.80 lbs) 160 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |