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Religion: Evolution and Development

International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2015, Vol.20, p.313-316

Second Edition Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. ;2015 Elsevier Ltd ;ISBN: 9780080970868 ;ISBN: 0080970869 ;ISBN: 9780080970875 ;ISBN: 0080970877 ;EISBN: 9780080970875 ;EISBN: 0080970877 ;DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.84033-7

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  • Title:
    Religion: Evolution and Development
  • Author: Bellah, Robert N.
  • Subjects: Directional ; Evolution ; Reformation ; Religion ; Religious Evolution ; Religious history ; Religious Traditions ; Social evolution ; Sociology of religion
  • Is Part Of: International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2015, Vol.20, p.313-316
  • Description: Since the idea of religious development merges into the much larger field of the history of religions, this article focuses on religious evolution. Contrary to common belief, it is to the writings of Max Weber that a defensible conception of religious evolution owes the most. According to Weber, Protestantism, though occurring in only one tradition, was, indirectly but crucially, an indispensable precondition for the emergence of modernity cross-culturally, and thus can legitimately be considered an instance of religious evolution. In this comparative studies in the sociology of religion Weber was particularly interested in the emergence of what he called the world religions in the first millennium BC. By calling these new symbolic forms ‘rationalized’ Weber was pointing to the fact that they were more coherent, more cognitively and ethically universalizing, more potentially self-critical (reflexive), and more disengaged from the existing society than what preceded them. Just as Protestantism emerged out of one of the world religions, so they themselves emerged out of societies organized in terms of kinship and neighborhood in which religion was primarily magical, by which Weber meant, one in which ritual means were used to attain utilitarian ends. This three-stage typology remains fundamental although it can be significantly refined.
  • Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 9780080970868
    ISBN: 0080970869
    ISBN: 9780080970875
    ISBN: 0080970877
    EISBN: 9780080970875
    EISBN: 0080970877
    DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.84033-7
  • Source: ScholarVox International
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