Rites of Power
Subtitle: Symbolism, Ritual and Politics Since the Middle Ages
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: April 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780812216950
Subjects: Anthropology; Social history; World history: c 500 to C 1500; c 1000 CE to c 1500; Political Theory; History; History - General History; History: World; Sociology - General; Anthropology - Cultural; World - General; General; History & Theory - General
First sentence: Like so many of the key ideas in Weber's sociology-versteben, legitimacy, inner-worldly asceticism, rationalization-the concept of charisma suffers from an uncertainty of referent: does it denote a cultural phenomenon or a psychological one?