Building Religions 11: Authority

Building Religions 11: Authority

My last few posts were a little light on the practical side for anyone designing a religion, so I thought I'd move back in the other direction and offer something that could be fit more easily into the worldbuilding process. It means going back to Max Weber's work again, particularly his discussion of how religious institutions develop over time. Most of this, I've drawn from Weber's The Theory of Social and Economic Organization, but a little is from Sociology of Religion.

Building Religions 1: Max Weber

Building Religions 1: Max Weber

I've been thinking lately about religion in the Ingressa, which is leading me to muse about applying a few academic theories to the process of creating religions for fictional settings in general. If this is the sort of thing that interests you, read on and feel free to share this.