Table of Contents

Introduction
Marx and Nietzsche
PART ONE: MARXISM
Logic and Fate in Weber′s Sociology
Weber and Structural Marxism
Weber and the Frankfurt School
PART TWO: RELIGION
Religious Stratification
Theodicy, the Career of a Concept
Weber on Medicine and Religion
PART THREE: DEVELOPMENT
Feudalism and Prebendalism
Weber and the Sociology of Development
Weber′s Orientalism
PART FOUR: CAPITALISM
Family, Property and Ideology
Weber and the Sociology of Law
Weber and Late Capitalism

About the Author

Bryan S. Turner is Professor of Sociology in the Asian Research Institute (ARI) at the National University of Singapore. Previously he was Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge from 1998-2005. His research interests include globalization and religion, concentrating on such issues as religious conflict and the modern state, religious authority and electronic information, religious, consumerism and youth cultures, human rights and religion, the human body, medical change, and religious cosmologies. He is Joint Chief Editor of the journal Citizenship Studies and serves on the editorial boards of several prestigious journals.