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''Sociology of Religion'' is a 1920 Book by Maximilian Weber , a German Economist and Sociologist . The original edition was in German.


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(A) ORIGINS OF RELIGION

:1) Primordial Notions Of Religion
::a) Viewpoint
::b) This-worldly Orientation
::c) Magic
::d) Charisma
::e) Belief in Spirits
::f) Ecstasy and Orgy
::g) Soul and Supernatural Power

:2) Symbolism
::a) Fear of Soul
::b) Displacement of Naturalism
::c) Spread of Symbolism
::d) Stereotyping Effect
::e) Transitions
::f) Mythological Analogy

:3) Concepts Of God
::a) Enduring Being
::b) Pantheon
::c) Roman Gods
::d) Gods of Economy
::e) Earthly and Heavenly Gods
::f) Specialization of Gods
::g) Gods of Household
::h) Political God
:::1) God of Israel
:::2) Local God and Foreign God
:::3) City-state God
:::4) Bands and God
::i) Monotheism
:::1) Primary God
:::2) Divine Order
:::3) Universalism


(B) EMERGENCE OF RELIGION


:1) Religion And God
::a) Coercion of God
::b) Worship Of God
:::1) Prayer
:::2) Sacrifice
::c) Definition Of Religion

:2) Priest
::a) Cult
::b) Enterprise
::c) Doctrine
::d) Sociological Definition

:3) Development Of The Notion Of Supernatural
::a) Demonstration Of Power
::b) Attribute of Failure
::c) Differentiation of Supernatural
::d) Ethical God
::e) Divination
::f) God of Law
::g) Impersonal Powers

:4) Development Of Religious Ethic
::a) Taboo
::b) Totemism
::c) Table-Community
::d) Taboo and Social Intercourse
::e) Caste Ethic
::f) Concept of Sin
::g) Religious Ethic
::h) Systematization of Ethic


(C) PROPHET


:1) Definition
::a) Priest And Prophet
::b) Magician And Prophet
::c) Prophetic Age
::d) Lawgiver and Prophet
:::1) Moses
::e) Prophet and Social Policy
::f) Tyrant and Prophet
::g) Ethic Teacher and Prophet
:::1) Guru
::h) Philosopher
::i) Reformer
::j) Mystery Cultist

:2) Natures Of Prophecy
::a) Ethical and Exemplary Prophecy
::b) God and Prophets
:::1) God as Rainmaker
:::2) Gods of Near East
::c) Prophetic Revelation


(D) RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY


:1) Origins Of Religious Community
::a) Prophetic Community
::b) Cultic Community
::c) Exemplary Community and Lay Devotee
::d) Occasional Lay Society
::e) Lay Community
::f) Parish and Sect

:2) Development Of Religious Community
::a) Prophet vs. Priest
::b) Scripture
:::1) Oral Tradition
:::2) Canonization
:::3) Priestly Education
::c) Development of Dogma
:::1) Religious Community
:::2) Priest's Interests
:::3) Conditions in World Religions
:::4) Christian Dogma
:::5) Dogma in Other Religions
::d) Preaching and Pastoral Care
::e) Priestly Rationalization of Ethic
::f) Magicalization of Priestly Religion
::g) Popularization of Prophetic Religion


(E) RELIGIOSITY OF SOCIAL STRATA


:1) Peasant
::a) Ancient Israel
::b) Passivity of Peasant
::c) Zoroastrianism
::d) Judaism
::e) Christianity

:2) Warrior Aristocrats
::a) Warrior's Conduct of Life
::b) Prophecy and Warrior
::c) Holy War
::d) Mithraism

:3) Bureaucrats
::a) Confucianism

:4) Citizen
::a) Wealthy Citizen
::b) Middle-Class
::c) Petty-Citizen
::d) Christianity
::e) Occident and Oriental City
::f) Rationality of Citizen's Life
::g) Development of Citizenry Rationalism

:5) Slave And Propertyless

:6) Mass Religiosity: Magic And Savior

:7) Women And Religion

:8) Social Strata And Sense Of Dignity
::a) Legitimacy of Fortunate
::b) Compensation of Disprivileged

:9) Pariah Status
::a) Jews and Hindu Castes
::b) Jewish Resentment
::c) Theodicy of Disprivilege
:::1) Jewish Theodicy
:::2) Jesus's Teaching
:::3) Buddhist Doctrine


(F) INTELLECTUALISM AND RELIGION


:1) Privileged Intellectualism
::a) Priest
::b) Privileged Lay Intellectuals

:2) Intellectual Salvation
::a) Social Conditions
::b) Asia
::c) Near East and West
::d) Intellectual Characters

:3) Non-privileged Intellectualism
::a) Pariah And Petty-citizen Intellectualism
::b) Ancient Judaism

:4) Intellectualism And Christianity
::a) Paul's Petty-citizen Intellectualism
::b) Dogmatic Intellectualism
::c) Anti-intellectualism of Christianity
:::1) Carriers of Religion
::d) Intellectualism in Medieval Christianity
::e) Humanist Intellectualism
::f) Puritan Intellectualism

:5) Modern Intellectualism
::a) Anglo-Saxon and Latin Intellectualism
::b) German Intellectualism
::c) Socialism
::d) Russian Intellectualism
::e) Enlightenment Intellectualism


(G) THEODICY AND SALVATION


:1) Theodicy
::a) Transcendental Creator
::b) Problem Of Theodicy
::c) Advent Solution
::d) Concept of Other World
::e) Solution by Predestination
::f) Providence
::g) Solution by Dualism
::h) Solution by Karma

:2) Salvation And Rebirth
::a) Promise of Wealth
::b) Political Salvation
::c) Salvation from Evil
::d) Other-worldly Salvation
::e) Salvation and Conduct of Life
::f) Sanctification and Rebirth

:3) Salvation By Ritual
::a) Ritual Mood
::b) Ritual Mysticism
::c) Sacrament
::d) Confessional
::e) Puritan Rites
::f) Jewish Ritualism

:4) Salvation By Good Works
::a) Account for Every Action
::b) Total Personality

:5) Salvation By Self-perfection
::a) Animistic Methodology
::b) Induction of Ecstasy
::c) Development of Methodology
:::1) Transcendental God
:::2) States of Sanctification
:::3) Indian Methodology
:::4) Catholicism and Confucianism
:::5) Certainty of Salvation
:::6) Rationalization of Methodology
::d) Religious Virtuosi


(H) ASCETICISM AND MYSTICISM


:1) Asceticism
::a) Definition
::b) World-rejection
::c) Inner-worldly Asceticism

:2) Mysticism
::a) Mystical Illumination
::b) Flight from the World
::c) Mystical Union
::d) Concentration upon Truth
::e) Container vs. Instrument
::f) Brokenness vs. Vocation
::g) Anomie vs. Reformation
::h) Mystic Love

:3) Oriental Vs. Occidental Salvation
::a) Concept of Divine
::b) Knowledge vs. Action
::c) Roman Law
::d) Roman Rulership
::e) Roman Church
::f) Ascetic Protestantism


(I) SALVATION BY OTHER'S ACHIEVEMENT


:1) Salvation By Grace
::a) Savior
::b) Doctrines of Savior
::c) Incarnation
::d) Sacramental Grace
::e) Institutional Grace
::f) Catholic Institution
::g) Dispensation and Conduct of Life
::h) Confessional and Conduct of Life
::i) Judaism and Ascetic Protestantism
::j) Institutional Authority

:2) Salvation By Faith
::a) Faith and Magic
::b) Faith of Islam and Judaism
::c) Non-prophetic Faith
::d) Dogmatic Faith
::e) Explicit and Implicit Faith
::f) Faith of Heart
::g) Aristocracy of Dogma
::h) Virtuoso of Faith
::i) Faith and Intellect
::j) Faith and Mysticism
::k) Faith and Ethic
::l) Idea of Vocation
::m) Lutheran Faith
::n) Faith and Carriers
::o) Emotional Faith

:3) Salvation By Predestination
::a) Men of Predestination
::b) Power of Predestination
::c) Islamic vs. Puritan Predestination
::d) Chinese Destiny
::e) Aristocracy of Predestination
::f) This-worldly Determinism


(J) RELIGIOUS ETHICS AND THE WORLD


:1) Internalization Of Religious Ethic
::a) Ritualistic Religion
::b) Ethic of Heart

:2) Religious Ethic And Economics
::a) Religious vs. Family Ethic
::b) Religious vs. Neighborly Ethic
::c) Alms-Giving
::d) Protection of Weak
::e) Religious Antipathy to Usury
::f) Antipathy to Rational Economy
::g) Economic Credit and Religion
::h) Asceticism vs. Economy
::i) Catholic Economic Life
::j) Protestant Asceticism

:3) Religious Ethics And Politics
::a) Conditions of Religion and Politics
:::1) Ancient Political Religion
:::2) Rise of Religious Community
:::3) Religious Rejection of Politics
::b) Tension between Religion And Politics
:::1) Absence of Conflict
:::2) Quaker Experiment
:::3) Political Indifference
:::4) Justifications of Violence
::c) State and Christianity
:::1) Early Christianity
:::2) Medieval Christianity
::d) Solution by Organic Ethic
:::1) Catholic Organic Ethic
:::2) Islamic Viewpoint
:::3) Indian Organic Ethic
:::4) Medieval Traditionalism of Vocation
::e) Moder State and Religion

:4) Religious Ethics And Sexuality
::a) Sexual Orgy
::b) Religious Hostility to Sexuality
::c) Religious Regulation of Sexuality
::d) Woman and Religion
::e) Marriage
::f) Rise of Eroticism

:5) Religious Ethic And Art
::a) Initial Intimacy between Religion and Art
::b) Rise of Esthetic Intellectualism
::c) Prophetic Antipathy of Art
::d) Religious Interests in Art
::e) Rational Religion's Rejection of Art


(K) RELIGIONS AND THE WORLD


:1) Judaism: World-accommodated
::a) Absence of Asceticism
::b) Jewish Economic Ethos
::c) Double Standards of Morals
::d) Jew, Catholic, and Puritan
::e) Jewish Intellectualism
:::1) Jewish Ideal
:::2) Jesus' Opposition
:::3) Urban Judaism
::f) Self-control
::g) Jewish Rationalism
::h) Lack of Asceticism
::i) Paul's Breakthrough
::j) Puritanism and Judaism

:2) Islam: This-worldliness
::a) Political Religion
::b) No Salvation
::c) Feudal Ethic
::d) Contrast to Judaism and Christianity

:3) Buddhism: World-rejection
::a) Genuine Religion of Salvation
::b) Transformation of Buddhism

:4) Capitalism And Religion

:5) Jesus: World-indifference
::a) Jesus's Self-Consciousness
::b) Salvational Heroism
::c) Indifference to World


SEE ALSO


Sociology Of Religion - Wiki entry of the general subject

Sociology - Wiki entry on sociology

Religion - Wiki entry on religion


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