DIE RELIGIONSSOZIOLOGIE MAX WEBERS UND EMILE DURKHEIMS: EIN BLEIBENDER GEGENSATZ
MAX WEBER'S AND EMILE DURKHEIM'S SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION: PERMANENT CONTRARIETY

Summary/Abstract: Commitment to the "classics" - a general characteristic of the current sociological self-conviction - is particulary present in sociology of religion: analyses, formulation of issues and theoretical presumptions are developed further in an explicit connection with the classics of sociology of religion. This is especially true of Max Weber and Emile Durkheim. What should straight forwardly be stressed is that: for both of them the issue of religion is not of secondary importance, but it is at the very center of their creativity. lt is through these two fundamentally different approaches of Weber and Durkheim that we define the position and meaning of religion in culture and society. We are confronted with two classics whose sociology of religion designates permanent and not intermediate contrarieties. This becomes especially apparent with regard to the question, which force, determining culture and society, can win over the contents of a religion and what is the relationship between religion and modern science.

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