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Vol. 18.1 January 2018 Contents Special Issue (Part II): Max Weber‘s Hinduism and Buddhism: Reflections on a Sociological Classic 100 Years On List of Contributors 5-6 Editorial Peter Flügel and Sam Whimster 7-9 Max Weber’s view on the religions of Southeast Asia Karl-Heinz Golzio 10-19 Max Weber’s Work and the Study of Buddhism today Richard Gombrich 20-40 Max Weber’s Concept of Legitimation in Hinduism Revisited Hermann Kulke 41-86 The Two Great Heterodoxies in Ancient India: An Example of Max Weber’s Anti-Hegelian Approach Wolfgang Schluchter 87-106 Asia in general and India in particular: Max Weber’s conclusions on the Role of the Literati in Hinduism and Buddhism Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer 107-121 Revisiting Max Weber’s Religion of India Romila Thapar 122-139 Book Reviews 140-148 M. Rainer Lepsius, Soziale Schichtung in der industriellen Gesellschaft Hans-Peter Müller 4 Max Weber Studies Sara R. Farris, Max Weber’s theory of personality: individuation, politics and orientalism in the sociology of religion Charles Turner Notes for Contributors 149 [MWS 18.1 (2018) 5-6] ISSN 1470-8078 http://dx.doi.org/10.15543/MWS/2018/1/1 List of Contributors Karl-Heinz Golzio main academic interests are the study of Indol- ogy, History of Religions and Oriental Art. His many travels include to the Near East, India, North Africa, South Africa and Southeast Asia, especially Cambodia which has become the main interest of his studies. Among his many pubications are Geschichte Kambodschas. Von Fúnán zu Angkor und von Angkor zur Moderne (Berlin 2011); ‘The Cal- endar systems of ancient India and their spread to Southeast Asia’, in Figurations of Time in Asia (Paderborn 2012: 205–225). Richard F. Gombrich founded the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Stud- ies in 2004, and has been its Academic Director since then. He has also been Chief Editor of its Journal since it began in 2011. Before his retirement in 2004, he held the Boden Chair of Sanskrit at Oxford University and a Professorial Fellowship at Balliol College for 28 years. He supervised 50 graduate theses at Oxford University, most of them doctorates and almost all of them on Buddhism. He was Chairman of the UK Association for Buddhist Studies 2006–2014. He was made an Honorary Life Member of the International Associa- tion of Buddhist Studies in 2008. He was President and Treasurer of the Pali Text Society 1994–2002, and Co-Editor of its journal from 1996–2002. He is the author of over 200 publications. Hermann Kulke is Prof. (em.) of Asian History, Kiel University 1988–2003; Ph.D. in Indology on the temple city of Chidambaram, 1967; D.Litt (Habilitation) on Gajapati kingship and Jagannath cult, 1975; Lecturer and Assoc. Prof. in Indian History at the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg 1967–1988; Visiting Professor Bhu- baneswar 1978/79, Asiatic Society, Kolkata 1986, JNU, New Delhi 1982; Research Fellow, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singa- pore 1987, Asia Research Institute, Singapore 2007; Coordinator of the Orissa Research Project of the German Research Council 1999– 2005; Gold Medal, Asiatic Society, Kolkata, 2006; Padma Shri Award 2010 of the President of India; Order of Merit of the Federal Repub- lic of Germany 2011. His specializations are early state formation, © Max Weber Studies 2018, Rm 4-12, London Metropolitan University, 84 Moorgate, London EC2M 6SQ. 6 Max Weber Studies kingship ideology, ritual policy and historiography of pre-colo- nial South and Southeast Asia; Indianization of Southeast Asia and Indian Ocean Studies. Wolfgang Schluchter, born 1938 in Ludwigsburg, Germany. He received a Diploma in Sociology at the Free University of Berlin in 1964. In 1967 he became a Dr. rer. pol., also at the Free University of Berlin. A second dissertation in Sociology followed at the Univer- sity of Mannheim in 1972. He became a full Professor of Social Sci- ences at the University of Düsseldorf (1973–1976). Since 1976 he has been Professor of Sociology at the University of Heidelberg. In addi- tion, he was Founding Dean at the University of Leipzig (1991–1992) and Vice-President of the University of Erfurt and Dean of the Max Weber Center for Cultural and Social Study and of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Erfurt (1997–2002), Dean of the Faculty for Economics and Social Sciences (2002–2006), Dr. rer. pol. h.c., 2006 retired. Director of the Marsilius-Kolleg, Uni- versity of Heidelberg (2007–2014). Visiting professorships at numer- ous universities, e.g. Singapore, Pittsburgh, New York, Berkeley, Hong Kong, Turin, recently Global Fellow, Peking University. Edi- tor-in-Chief of the Max Weber Gesamtausgabe. Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer is Director of the China Centrum Tübingen, President of the Erich-Paulun-Institut, Senior Professor at Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Prof. em. for Ostasiatische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft at the University of Göttingen and retired in 2015 as Director of the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel a.D. He has written extensively on China, old and new, and edited the volume on Confucianism and Taoism for the Max Weber Gesamtausgabe. Romila Thapar has written many books and articles on early Indian history and historiography. She is Professor Emeritus of History at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. © Max Weber Studies 2018. [MWS 18.1 (2018) 7-9] ISSN 1470-8078 http://dx.doi.org/10.15543/MWS/2018/1/2 Editorial Peter Flügel and Sam Whimster This issue publishes the second instalment of papers coming out of the conference on Max Weber’s Hinduism and Buddhism study (known in English as The Religion of India). As many of the papers point out, the Hinduism and Buddhism study was part of the series of ‘The Economic Ethics of the World Religions’. The English trans- lations of that series have mangled the continuity of Weber’s proj- ect. He wrote the Introduction to the series (translated by Gerth and Mills in their collection From Max Weber as ‘The Social Psychology of the World Religions’), and then Weber proceeded to the study on Confucianism and Taoism (translated as The Religion of China).
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