Other- and inner-worldly asceticism in medieval Waldensianism: a Weberian analysis.

Sociology of Religion | June 22, 1995| | Copyright

Social and religious life in the Middle Ages is not a popular field of study in sociology. Even sociologists specializing in religion and comparative historical studies generally find it too remote from their personal interests and professional expertise to devote a study to this topic. This, however, has not always been the case, most notably for Max Weber. Weber wanted to conclude his Collected essays in the sociology of religion with a study on Western Christianity, entitled The Christianity of the Occident (cf. Schluchter 1989:425, 471). He intended to explore the ways in ...

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