{"id":358,"date":"2010-11-16T10:32:49","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T14:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=358"},"modified":"2013-08-28T18:56:19","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T22:56:19","slug":"analects-of-the-core-49","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2010\/11\/16\/analects-of-the-core-49\/","title":{"rendered":"Analects of the Core: Weber on religion&#8217;s significance in society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2010\/11\/weber.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"299\" width=\"198\" alt=\"The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2010\/11\/weber.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-359\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Denn obwohl der moderne Mensch im ganzen selbst beim besten Willen nicht imstande zu sein pflegt, sich die Bedeutung, welche religi\u00f6se Bewu\u00dftseinsinhalte auf die Lebensf\u00fchrung, die Kultur und die Volkscharaktere gehabt haben, so gro\u00df vorzustellen, wie sie tats\u00e4chlich gewesen ist<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For sure, even with the best will, the modern person seems generally unable to imagine <em>how <\/em>large a significance those components of our consciousness rooted in religious beliefs have actually had upon culture, national character, and the organization of life.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Max_Weber\">Max Weber<\/a> (1864-1920), in Chapter 5: Asceticism and the Spirit of Capitalism, p. 178, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Protestant-Ethic-Spirit-Capitalism\/dp\/0199747253\/\"><em>The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism<\/em><\/a> (German, <em>Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus)<\/em>. Tomorrow, Prof. Stephen Kalberg (Department of Sociology) will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/core\/cc203\/\">lecturing in CC203<\/a> on Weber&#8217;s famous work in the area of economic sociology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denn obwohl der moderne Mensch im ganzen selbst beim besten Willen nicht imstande zu sein pflegt, sich die Bedeutung, welche religi\u00f6se Bewu\u00dftseinsinhalte auf die Lebensf\u00fchrung, die Kultur und die Volkscharaktere gehabt haben, so gro\u00df vorzustellen, wie sie tats\u00e4chlich gewesen ist For sure, even with the best will, the modern person seems generally unable to imagine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3691,3857],"tags":[3692],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2939,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/2939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}