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(2015) Fundamental concepts in Max Weber's sociology of religion, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Unlike many of the dual concepts treated in this book, the concepts of prophets and pariah-people are naturally linked. That is because Weber's interest is almost exclusively in the Old Testament Prophets and his concern with pariah-people was mostly limited to the Jews. What also drew his attention was the two groups' reputations as outsiders, and their political, economic, and religious struggles. Although a few scholars have suggested that Weber was racist and an anti-Semite, his scholarly interest and his personal concerns should be sufficient to show that these claims are unwarranted.
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Adair-Toteff, C. (2015). Prophets and pariah-people, in Fundamental concepts in Max Weber's sociology of religion, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 83-103.
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