Max Weber : uma leitura da sociologia da religião
AUTOR(ES)
Julia Maria de Souza Rodrigues
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2001
RESUMO
For Weber, religion is the key to the interpretation and understanding of wider cultural processes, such as disenchantment of the world and secularization. Moreover, he defines it as a personal style of life promoted by the individual, which consequently interferes in the conduct of a historically detennined group or collective. Analysis of religion pennits the interpretive comprehension of various "historical individualities", that is, innumerous religions such as Buddhism, Confucianism, Judaism, Protestantism, and Hinduism, among others, whose historic and typological description permitted the most complete formulation of the relationship between religion and economy, that is, of the meaningful connection between Protestantism and Capitalism. Based on a comparative and descriptive analysis of world religions (religious ethics), Weber considers religion (Protestantism) to be one of the causal detenninants of European capitalism
