"This book explores the latest thinking about Max Weber and his continuing influence on theoretical and empirical interests today. Bringing together the work of leading scholars from a variety of disciplines, it illuminates Weber's thought in a number of key areas, including the…
Max Weber & Islam
"Max Weber and Islam is a major effort by Islamic studies specialists to reexamine and appraise Max Weber's perspectives on Islam and its historical development. Eight specialists on Islam and two sociologists explore many dimensions of Weber's comments on Islam, along with Webe…
"Despite the extensive scholarship on Max Weber (1864-1920) and W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963), very little of it examines the contact between the two founding figures of Western sociology. Drawing on their correspondence from 1904 to 1906, and comparing the sociological work that…
Love or Greatness provides the first thorough examination of the essentially masculine nature of Max Weber's social and political thought. Through detailed interpretation of Weber's central texts, the author demonstrates how Weber's work can be seen as advocating a masculine for…
Ziel des Sammelbands ist es, die Relevanz von Webers Religionssoziologie für den aktuellen Diskurs herauszuarbeiten und gegenüber anderen religionssoziologischen Konzepten zu positionieren. Diesem Zweck dienen einerseits die begrifflich-theoretischen Überlegungen zu Webers Ansat…