Over the last few decades numerous studies of "popular religion" have appeared in the relevant scholarly literature. While only a few of these studies have explored Max Weber's (often ambiguous) ...

The present essay is an attempt to reply to the question whether the idea, familiar to a number of sociologists of secularization, that religion is destined to whither away until it eventually ...

I n the summer of 1917, a group of university students in Munich invited Max Weber to launch a lecture series on “intellectual work as a vocation” with a talk about the scholar’s work. He was, in a ...