Reconsideration on religion through the comparison between Max Weber's theory of religion and his contemporaries' theories of religion

本研究将马克斯·韦伯的宗教理论与他同时代的竞争对手，包括威廉·詹姆斯，弗里德里希·威廉·尼采，格奥尔格·齐美尔，西田喜多郎和卡尔·雅斯贝尔斯的假设理论进行比较，并调查不同方法，如哲学，心理学和宗教社会学，分化的过程和情况。通过这些比较，本研究从多个角度对宗教进行了探讨。这项研究还包括对韦伯在他所拥有的那些书中所作的实际旁注的调查，这些书现在存放在慕尼黑的巴伐利亚科学院。

This research compares Max Weber’s theory of religion with rival theories postulated by his contemporaries, including William James, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Georg Simmel, Kitaro Nishida and Karl Jaspers and investigates the processes and situations in which different approaches, such as philosophy, psychology and sociology of religion, were differentiated. Through these comparisons, this study has inquired into religion from various standpoints. This research also includes an investigation of the actual marginal notes made by Weber in those books which he owned and which now reside in the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften in Munchen.