ISBN10: 0313268924, ISBN13: 9780313268922, [publisher: Greenwood Press, New York] Hardcover First Edition Cloth hardcover binding is clean, tight, and square. The interior is clean except for previous owner's name and notes on the front pastedown. The text has light (erasable) pencil underling up to page 80; the rest of the text is clean and unmarked. NOT ex-library. A good, solid copy. xii, 229pp. With extensive bibliography and index.
[Wooster, OH, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1990]
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Westport, CT Praeger 1990 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 241 p. Contributions in Military Studies, 24.

Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Time, Place, and Circumstance: Neo-Weberian Studies in Comparative Religious History. ISBN 0313268924 9780313268922 [GB]

ISBN10: 0313268924, ISBN13: 9780313268922, [publisher: Bloomsbury 3PL] Hardcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book is a collection of essays that explore a variety of topics in religious history, both East and West, using theoretical frameworks derived from the comparative-historical sociology of Max Weber. It breaks new ground, offering substantive new research in the historical sociology of religion. The scope of essays covers both geographical and chronological vistas.The first section of this contributed volume focuses on Oriental religion. A survey chapter by Gert Mueller on the religions of Asia precedes two more specific studies by Deniz Tekiner and Donovan Walling on, respectively, social conflict and change in Indian religion and Tibetan (Buddhist) patrimonialism. The second section considers the heritage of Occidental religion. Peter Munch analyzes the charismatic authority of the judges of Ancient Israel, while Joseph Bryant explores the religion of ancient Greek intellectuals from Homer and Hesiod through the pre-Socratics. A final essay by Donald Nielsen assesses the quality of contemporary efforts to do a sociology of early Christianity and makes some suggestions toward improvement. The third section deals with the breakthrough to the modern world view. An initial essay by Nielsen treats the Inquisition in its earliest stages as presaging later Western religious rationalization. A chapter by Bill Garrett then asses ...
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