The Religion of India: The Sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism, also known as just The Religion of India, is a book written by Maximilian Weber, a German economist and sociologist in the early twentieth century. The original edition was in German. An English translation was made in 1958 and several editions have been released since then.
It was his third major work on the sociology of religion, after The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitali...
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The Religion of India: The Sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism, also known as just The Religion of India, is a book written by Maximilian Weber, a German economist and sociologist in the early twentieth century. The original edition was in German. An English translation was made in 1958 and several editions have been released since then.
It was his third major work on the sociology of religion, after The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism and The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism. In this work he deals with the structure of Indian society, with the orthodox doctrines of Hinduism and the heterodox doctrines of Buddhism, then with modifications brought by the influence of popular religiosity and finally with the impact of religious beliefs on the secular ethic of Indian society.
The Indian social system was throughout influenced by the concept of caste (varna). It directly linked religious belief and the segregation of society into status groups. Weber describes the...
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