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Vol. 17.2 July 2017 Contents Special Issue (Part I): Max Weber‘s Hinduism and Buddhism: Reflections on a Sociological Classic 100 Years On List of Contributors 135 Editorial Peter Flügel and Sam Whimster 139-140 Eigengesetzlichkeit: The Relationship between Religion and Politics in India and in the Occident Andreas Buss 141-159 Dharma and Natural Law: Max Weber’s Comparison of Hindu and (Occidental) Christian Legal Traditions Laura Ford 160-195 Sociology of world relations: Confronting the complexities of Hindu Religions A perspective beyond Max Weber Martin Fuchs 196-211 Sheldon Pollock and Max Weber: Why Pollock is more Weberian than he thinks David N. Gellner 212-234 Reconstructing Weber’s Indian Rationalism: A Comparative Analysis Stephen Kalberg 235-253 Dialectics of Disenchantment: Devaluation of the Objective World—Revaluation of Subjective Religiosity Hans G. Kippenberg 254-281 134 Max Weber Studies Review Essay Max Weber, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Die Wirtschaft und die gesellschaftlichen Ordnungen und Mächte. Nachlaß, Teilband 4: Herrschaft Max Weber, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Soziologie. Unvollendet 1919–1920 Max Weber, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Entstehungsgeschichte und Dokumente Keith Tribe 282-296 Book Reviews 297-321 Andreas E. Buss, The Economic Ethics of World Religions and their Laws: An Introduction to Max Weber’s Comparative Sociology Christopher Adair-Toteff Thomas Kemple, Intellectual Work and the Spirit of Capitalism: Weber’s Calling Jack Barbalet Austin Harrington, German Cosmopolitan Social Thought and the Idea of the West: Voices from Weimar Gangolf Hübinger Max Weber, Briefe 1903–1905 Lawrence A. Scaff Christopher Adair-Toteff, Fundamental Concepts in Max Weber’s Sociology of Religion Christopher Adair-Toteff, Max Weber’s Sociology of Religion Bryan S. Turner Notes for Contributors 322 [MWS 17.2 (2017) 135-137] ISSN 1470-8078 http://dx.doi.org/10.15543/MWS/2017/2/1 List of Contributors Andreas Buss studied comparative religions, indology and sociol- ogy in Kiel, Tübingen, and in Paris where he received his doctor- ate. He also obtained a law degree from the University of Ottawa in Canada. He has published books and articles on ancient India, Russian-Orthodox Christianity, international law in Asia, and on Max Weber in French, English and German. His most recent publi- cation is The Economic Ethics of World Religions and their Laws (Baden- Baden: Nomos, 2015). He has taught in universities in Germany, Japan and Canada. Now retired he still teaches at the University of Ottawa on a part-time basis. Email: [email protected] Laura Ford is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Bard College. With a background in both sociology and law, Ford’s research and teaching areas include law, religion & society, economic sociol- ogy, theory (especially classical sociological theory), the history and development of intellectual property, and historical sociology. She received her PhD in Sociology from Cornell University in 2014, with Richard Swedberg as doctoral advisor, was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at The Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy from 2014–2016, and moved to Bard as a Visiting Assistant Professor in January 2016. Martin Fuchs holds the Professorship for Indian Religious History at the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, University of Erfurt, Germany. Trained in both Anthropology and Sociology he has taught at universities in Germany, Switzerland, Hungary and New Zealand. His research interests include cultural and social theory, urban anthropology, social movements, struggles for recognition, religious individualization; his regional focus is on India. His recent publications include Individualisierung durch christ- liche Mission?, edited together with Antje Linkenbach and Wolfgang Reinhard (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2015); Religious Individualisa- tion, guest editor together with Jörg Rüpke, special issue of Religion 45. 3 (2015); ‘Worldview and relationships to the world: The concepts © Max Weber Studies 2017, Rm 4-12, London Metropolitan University, 84 Moorgate, London EC2M 6SQ. 136 Max Weber Studies of karma(n) and bhakti in Weber’s study on Hinduism and Buddhism’, Max Weber Studies 16.2 (2016): 211–27; ‘Recognition across difference: Conceptual considerations against an Indian background’, in Trans- national Struggles for Recognition: New Perspectives on Civil Society since the 20th Century, edited by Dieter Gosewinkel and Dieter Rucht. David N. Gellner is Professor of Social Anthropology and Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford. He his first essay on Max Weber was published in 1982. He has been working on South Asia (mainly Nepal) even longer. Among his recent books are Religion, Secularism, and Ethnicity in Contemporary Nepal (co-editor, Oxford University Press, 2016), Borderland Lives in Northern South Asia (editor, Duke, 2013), and Rebuilding Buddhism: The Theravada Move- ment in Twentieth-Century Nepal (co-author, Harvard, 2005). Stephen Kalberg teaches classical theory, contemporary theory, and comparative political cultures in the Sociology Department at Boston University. He is the translator of Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (2001, 2011) and editor of Max Weber: Readings and Commentary on Modernity (2005) and The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism with Other Writings on the Rise of the West (2009). He is the author of Max Weber’s Comparative-Historical Sociol- ogy (1994), Les Idees, les