Своеобразието на западноевропейското културно развитие в универсално-исторически контекст
The Peculiarity of Occidental Cultural Development in Universal Historical Context

Summary/Abstract: (The Supplements to the Second Edition of Protestant Ethics against the Background of Max Weber’s Works on Sociology and History of Religion) The article analyzes the changes and additions of the second edition of The Protestant Ethic against the background of all of Max Weber’s works concerning the sociology of religion and writings by other contemporary authors regarding history of religions. Passing through the most important addenda of the second edition of The Protestant Ethic, we can observe that Weber does not just project his comparative approach and systematic perspective on the original Protestant Ethic. Stimulated by disputes with his critics, he instead sharpens the methodological approach with the help of comparative and systematic additions. This especially refers to his concept of salvation religiosity, developed within his „Religionssystematik“, which should include the question of certitudo salutis as discussed in The Protestant Ethic. What Weber had addressed more or less intuitively as „the abolition of magical sacramental grace“ in the first edition of The Protestant Ethic should become more articulate from 1911 onward as he dealt with the History of Religions (and even from 1908 onward as he dealt with Judaism). It gained a systematic dimension with the typological differentiation between magical and ethical religiosity. This systematics is brought up by Weber in the addenda of the second edition of his Protestant Ethic – leading up to his thesis of „disenchantment“ („Entzauberung“).

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