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In social science, disenchantment (German: Entzauberung) is the cultural rationalization and devaluation of religion apparent in modern society.The term was borrowed from Friedrich Schiller by Max Weber to describe the character of a modernized, bureaucratic, secularized Western society. [1]
The Rejection and the Meaning of the World, known also as World Rejection and Theodicy (German: Stufen und Richtungen der religiösen Weltablehnung), is a 1916 essay written by Max Weber, a German economist and sociologist.
Weber knew (and personally regretted) that European societies had been rejecting supernatural rules of behavior since the Age of Enlightenment. He called this discrediting of value-rational ends " disenchantment ", [ 3 ] and feared that placing faith in practical conditional ends destroys human freedom to believe in ultimate moral ends.
The process of disenchantment caused the world to become more explained and less mystical, moving from polytheistic religions to monotheistic ones and finally to the Godless science of modernity. [174] Older explanations of why events occurred relied on the belief in supernatural interference in the material world.
In graduate school, Storm received training in continental philosophy and critical theory, traditions that are cited and discussed in The Myth of Disenchantment. [1] Storm's earlier work, including his 2012 book The Invention of Religion in Japan, extensively discussed questions of theory in religious studies and European intellectual history, especially in the early modern period.
[3] [4] According to Talcott Parsons, otherworldly stances provided no leverage upon socio-economic problems, and inner-worldly mystics attached no significance to the material world surrounding them, [5] the inner-worldly ascetic acted within the institutions of the world, while being opposed to them, and as an instrument of God. However ...
The Economic Ethics of the World Religions (German: Die Wirtschaftsethik der Weltreligionen) is an unfinished book series by Max Weber. Weber's work in the field of sociology of religion began with the book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism . [ 1 ]
Max Weber, early 20th-century German sociologist, was concerned with the "disenchantment" he associated with the rise of modernity, capitalism, and scientific consciousness. Berman traces the history of this disenchantment. He argues that the modern consciousness is destructive to both the human psyche and the planetary environment.