Weber's Disenchantment and Rationalisation

• Weber 1905: Protestaqnt Reformation began the rationalisation of life in the west where the religious worldview was replaced by a rational scientific view
• Catholic worldview that dominated Europe based on the world as an 'enchanted garden'
• As Protestants viewed God as transcendent (existing above and beyond the world) we became disenchanted as world events could no longer be explained by the unpredictable forces of god.
• Protestant Reformation began the 'disenchantment' of the world
• Bruce 2011: growth of a technological worldview has replaced religious or supernatural explanations of why things occur - leaving little room for religious explanations