Joachim Wach

Joachim Ernst Adolphe Felix Wach (January 25, 1898 – August 27, 1955) was a German religious scholar from Chemnitz, who emphasised a distinction between the history of religion and the philosophy of religion.

Literature

• Meister und Jünger: zwei religionssoziologische Betrachtungen, 1924
• Sociology of Religion, 1947
  • Sociologia religiei, trans. Florin Iorga, Iaşi: Polirom, 1997. (in Romanian)
• Types of Religious Experience: Christian and Non-Christian, 1951
• The Comparative Study of Religions, posthumous, 1958
• Understanding and Believing: Essays, 1968
• Religionswissenschaft. Prolegomena zu ihrer wissenschaftstheoretischen Grundlegung, 1924
  • Introduction to the History of Religions, 1988 (English)

Links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Wach