TY - GEN A1 - Weber, Edmund T1 - Modern Hindu culture : a study on modernization of Hinduism by considering the parallels in modern Christianity T2 - Journal of religious culture = Journal für Religionskultur N2 - The Christian culture experienced a deep-going change with the uprising of the Civil Society ("Bürgerliche Gesellschaft"), the industrialization of economic production, the urbanization of life-style and the individualization of religiosity in the 19th century. The Christian formation of inner- and outer-world in those days became obsolete. From this conflict the civil or modern Christianity origi-nated. In a painful changing process most of the people of this new society have newly interpreted religion, moral and ritual of traditional Christianity and cre-ated to their new conditions of life new institutional forms of transmission and realization of Christian cultural heritage. Under the recourse of the Reformato-rian heritage the modern Christianity developed the religious-moral doctrine: A true Christian is before all a citizen who is living in the midst of the world self-determinate and socially engaged fulfilling all his worldly duties; the modern Christian has to get this motivation for a world-oriented existence on his own responsibility because religion is not restricted anymore. ... T3 - Journal of religious culture = Journal für Religionskultur - 6 Y1 - 1997 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/560 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-48921 UR - http://web.uni-frankfurt.de/irenik/religionskultur.htm SN - 1434-5935 IS - 6 PB - Univ. CY - Frankfurt am Main ER -