Religioni, orientamento verso il mondo e misticismo in Max Weber

This essay delineates Troeltsch’s influence on Max Weber’s interest in mysticism within the framework of his sociology of religions of salvation, in which asceticism engenders rationalization and methodical worldly engagement, while mysticism privileges an affective union with the divine, accompanied by contemplative detachment. Mysticism endures as a heuristic category for interpreting religion in the contemporary world, where it manifests both as a form of individual, inward religiosity and, potentially, as a force for social transformation.