The Method of Rationalization of Weber and the Non-Institutionalization of Dumont: A Vision on Hinduism and Vedanta

Abstract

Weber describes that the “rationalism” concerns of the rejection of all the irrational forms of searching the sacred and that the Indian asceticism was the most rationally developed in the world. Weber’s main argument is that the Indian laicism has developed a soteriology free from priests, partially delivered to a religious skepticism. This may have been the clue from Weber which Dumont followed to develop it in homo hierarchicus and it is with that intention that I develop the thinking of the latter about the power in the traditional caste society and the consequent Hinduism deinstitutionalization. I seek to understand in what way Dumont affirms to exist a democratization of the institution and the meaning of the renunciant as the possessor of an individuality,