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·韦伯的宗教理论与同时代的威廉·詹姆斯、弗里德里希·威廉·尼采、乔治·西梅尔、西田北太郎和卡尔·雅斯贝尔斯等人提出的对立理论进行了比较，并考察了哲学、心理学和宗教社会学等不同研究方法产生差异的过程和情形。通过这些比较，本研究从不同角度对宗教进行了探讨。这项研究还包括对韦伯在他拥有的那些书中所做的实际页边注释的调查，这些书现在存放在慕尼黑的Bayerische Akademie der Wisenschaften。

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.