This quantity truly communicates that Weber's impression is of serious importance to the background of social technology, and to appreciating the theoretical paintings of alternative social scientists within the glossy age. Its insightful and well timed booklet includes topical and leading edge paintings discussing Weber in various historic and modern questions together with: the talk surrounding the Da Vinci code; the charismatic function of martyrs;
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Mahon considers the topical issue of The Da Vinci Code: a ‘conspiracy theory’ that has since spawned many imitators, as any visit to a bookshop will quickly confirm. Mahon explains how the Roman Catholic Church’s critique of The Da Vinci Code focused largely on its purported distortions of history, its denial of certain constituent Christian dogmas, and on calumnies it spoke against Opus Dei. However, by framing the affair within Weber’s understanding of the dynamics of legitimacy, Mahon additionally construes the Church’s efforts in opposing The Da Vinci Code as a concerted bid to reinforce the ideological bulwark surrounding millennia-old structures of episcopal governance.
32 Max Weber Matters ramifications of the sect for the understanding of, for example, recruitment to a sect, the transforming work of the sect on character, of the relation of sects to charisma, to democracy and to types of leadership (Chalcraft 2007a). In the case of the analysis of Weber’s sociology of sects the inter-textual situation is typically complex. It is necessary to take up all the texts that we have established have something to contribute to the unravelling of Weber’s treatment of sects, and consider them in their inter-textual relations.
The fact that Weber is associated with particular substantive sub-fields within sociology illustrates the manner in which sociologists have read and appropriated Weber’s work, but also Why Hermeneutics, the Text(s) and the Biography of the Work Matter 23 reflects the manner in which Weber texts have been transmitted, particularly, in translation (Tribe 1989; Sica 1988; Chalcraft 2006). Given the vast range of Weber’s interests, however, even scholars who want to avoid the atomatization of Weber’s legacy, have to be selective in their work at any one time.