In 1904, the sociologist Max Weber traveled across the United States, loved what he saw and wrote about it. In return, America became a fan of Max Weber’s writings long before his homeland Germany.

I n the summer of 1917, a group of university students in Munich invited Max Weber to launch a lecture series on “intellectual work as a vocation” with a talk about the scholar’s work. He was, in a ...

Over the last few decades numerous studies of "popular religion" have appeared in the relevant scholarly literature. While only a few of these studies have explored Max Weber's (often ambiguous) ...