Secularization and de-secularization processes under the light of Max Weber’s rationalization sociology

Authors

  • Eduardo Weisz Facultad de Ciencias Sociales – Universidad de Buenos Aires

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7984.2017v16n36p97

Abstract

This article starts posing a number of problems with which the classical understanding of the end of religions in Modernity has been confronted. This allows for a framework from which Max Weber’s theory of secularization can be addressed. From 1904 onwards, this author was engaged in the understanding of the historical-universal process of rationalization, and it is in this analysis where his prospective of secularization has to be looked for. His sociology of religion is therefore deconstructed from this point of view, so as to grasp why he understood that religions were displaced in the constitution of modern life conducts. After this analysis, the article poses the importance of this author’s legacy for the understanding of different issues concerning the present process of rebirth of religions.

Author Biography

Eduardo Weisz, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales – Universidad de Buenos Aires

Doctor en Ciencias Sociales (UBA y EHESS) Docente e Investigador en la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales – Universidad
de Buenos Aires. E-mail: eduardoweisz@hotmail.com.

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Published

2017-10-17

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 36 (2017)

Section

Special Issue 1 - Sociology and sociologists in Latin America: research, teaching, and interdisciplinarity in contemporary context

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