摘要：The present article demonstrates that Max Weber’s interest in the relationship between religion and economy was a detour to enable him to understand its relationship with politics. In his religious studies, Weber conceived his ideas under the influence of Georg Jellinek. In regard to the historiography of puritanism, however, he differed with his predecessors and Jellinek’s perspectives. His work owes a great deal to the political motive that lay behind it. In his sociology he sought to account for the religious principles that prompted the bourgeoisie to size political power and to power politics specialy in England. He did not however, complete the project.
