Weber and the Persistence of Religion: Social

This book presents a clear and compelling case for the intimate practical relationship between religion and capitalism. It signals a major change in how social scientists are beginning to interpret capitalism, religion and growing public hostility against secular society. It offers a new understanding of Weber and Weberian sociology and Marx's mature social theory and also contains significant commentary of figures such as Kant, Foucault and Lyotard.

Joseph W.H. Lough is a Visiting Scholar in the Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He teaches in the social sciences on the San Francisco and Oakland campuses of California College of the Arts, as well as at the DeAnza College, Cupertino, California.

Preface

xi

Introduction: contemporary religion

1

(11)

Marx and religion

2

(4)

Characterizing religion

6

(1)

Religion and the Kantian sublime

7

(2)

Our approach

9

(3)

The retreat of ultimate and sublime values

12

(9)

The retreat of ultimate and sublime values from public life

13

(1)

The sublime bourgeois interior

14

(4)

The constitutional state and the spirit of Yahweh

18

(3)

Disembodiment and the sublime: the birth of modern religion

21

(17)

The disappearing body and blood of the Holy Eucharist

24

(2)

Time, value and the emergence of the sublime

26

(5)

The sublime value form of the commodity

31

(2)

Edmund Burke, Immanuel Kant, G.F.W. Hegel and the sublime

33

(5)

The `spirit' of capitalism

38

(19)

The problem

38

(2)

Capitalism and religion

40

(6)

The mechanistic triebwerk of capitalism and its sublime spirit

46

(1)

Immanuel Kant, Heinrich Rickert and Max Weber

47

(7)

War and hope

54

(3)

The hiatus irrationalis

57

(16)

The gulf between value and body

59

(4)

Weber, Lukacs and Schmitt

63

(1)

Lukacs: imputed class consciousness

64

(2)

Schmitt: the extreme condition

66

(5)

Mortifying the flesh

71

(2)

The prophetic pneuma

73

(20)

Confucian China and Weberian Traditionalism

75

(4)

Developmental logic and religion in China

79

(2)

From natural to traditional religion

81

(3)

Warfare and War Prophecy

84

(2)

Ancient religious warriors and the sublime

86

(2)

The fate of warrior religion

88

(5)

The `community unto death'

93

(10)

Die Gemeinschaft bis zum Tode

96

(4)

Death and the value form of the commodity

100

(1)

Passchendaele: the sacrificial ground

101

(2)

The body of religion

103

(9)

Radical orthodoxy

106

(2)

Embodied religion -- spiritual bodies

108

(1)

Post-capitalism religion

108

(4)

Notes

112

(14)

Bibliography

126

(10)

Index

136

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Weber and the Persistence of Religion: Social Theory, Capitalism and the Sublime

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