Wolfgang Schluchter

Wolfgang Schluchter (born 4 April 1938 in Ludwigsburg, Germany) is a German sociologist and, as of 2006, professor emeritus at Heidelberg University. Schluchter is recognized as a leading sociologist of religion and an authority on the history of sociological theory, in particular on the work of Max Weber. He was one of the editors of the , alongside Wolfgang J. Mommsen and . succeeded Mommsen after he died in 2004. The project was completed in June 2020, with forty-seven volumes. Schluchter was visiting professor at several universities worldwide, including the University of Pittsburgh, The New School for Social Research, and the University of California, Berkeley.

Selected works in English translation Max Weber’s Vision of History. Ethics and Methods. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1979. (with Guenther Roth) The Rise of Western Rationalism: Max Weber's Developmental History. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1985. Rationalism, Religion, and Domination. A Weberian Perspective. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1989. Paradoxes of Modernity. Culture and Conduct in the Theory of Max Weber. Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1996. Max Weber and Islam. Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, N.J., 1995 (edited with Toby Huff) Public Spheres and Collective Identities. Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, NJ, 2000 (edited with Shmuel N. Eisenstadt and Björn Wittrock)