Religion and Rationality in Max Weber's Philosophy of Society and its Criticism

This paper examines the origin of religious attitude and its relation to rationality in Max Weber's sociology of religion. Weber's approach to religion is a social psychological approach in which the rational and emotional bases and their relation to social factors are concerned. One of the most influential aspects of his discussion of religion is rationality and its relation to religious attitude. But what does rationality mean in Weber's sociology of religion. What are the features of the rationality? Is his rationality a complete and non-problematic kind of rationality? Is his analysis of religion is accurate and out of problem? These are the questions which this paper undertakes to answer. In this paper, Weber's analysis of religion and the origin of religious attitude will be assessed.