Abstract
The idea of cult centralisation in ancient Israel is investigated as a form of disenchantment. The Temple in Jerusalem can now be styled The House of the LORD and the countryside ought to be bereft of holy places and holy objects. However, the LORD did not stay in his “House”. Was this the start of a global process of disenchantment reaching its culmination in modernity? The question is posed whether the world could still be the enchanted house of man now that the LORD is absent. The article suggests that science associated with the Torah of nature can still discover an enchanted world.
Highlights
The idea of cult centralisation in ancient Israel is investigated as a form of disenchantment
Max Weber and disenchantment In November 1917 Max Weber presented a lecture at a meeting of the Freistudentischen Bund: Landesverband Bayern on science as a profession
‘For Weber the disenchantment of the world lay right at the heart of modernity ... it is definitive of his concept of modernity, “the key concept within Weber’s account of the distinctiveness and significance of Western culture” (Schroeder 1995: 228)’ (Jenkins 2000: 12)
Summary
In November 1917 Max Weber presented a lecture at a meeting of the Freistudentischen Bund: Landesverband Bayern on science as a profession. That means the disenchantment of the world’ (Weber 2004: 274). Dies vor allem bedeutet die Intellektualisierung als solche. It is very important for this piece that Weber adds that the process of disenchantment has being playing out for thousands of years. It should be noted that he puts quotation marks around the word “progress” in the sentence following the quotation cited above He is at best ambivalent about disenchantment. Pauw ‘For Weber the disenchantment of the world lay right at the heart of modernity ... ‘There is, for example, rationalization of mystical contemplation, that is of an attitude which, viewed from other departments of life, is irrational’ (Weber 1976: 26). We first need to visit Jerusalem in the eighth century BC
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