ABSTRACT
The sociology is continued and developed in general terms in the section of Economy and Society devoted to the general sociology of religions in their relations to human behavior, particularly economic behavior. Economy and Society is a treatise on general sociology which contains a sociology of economics, a sociology of law, a sociology of politics, and a sociology of religion. At the outset of Max Weber's sociology of religion, the author find an interpretation of primitive and eternal religion which is very close to Durkheim's conception in Les Formes elementaires de la vie religieuse. Weberian sociology has sought to establish a typology of fundamental religious attitudes providing answers to intellectual problems contained in prophetic messages. The breakdown of conservatism by prophetism opens the way for increased autonomy in each order of activity and at the same time raises problems which Weberian sociology seeks to solve on the level of facts.
