Charisma: Do we know how, when TRP

[Mark Kohut]

went deep into some sociologists, Weber perhaps most notably?
 
In the US, he was hot in the 60s, proportionately, if sales of his books indicated that. 
Protestant Ethic most, of course; I remember that from bookselling days where I learned
of it first. I remember others, too. 
 
I found a 1963 edition of Weber's The Sociology of Religion, Beacon Press, at a thrift store in nashville, 
reprinted 3 times by 1964. Lotsa interpretive pages of intros and prefaces stuff. 
 
In which the translator sez  Weber's style, has "his syntactical idiosyncracies, and his "nominalistic irony"
'which manifests itself in strange uses of familiar terms' and quotes Hans Gerth as perceptive in calling his style
"Gothic-castle" [Gothic-castle, a little Pynchon-like?]and "Platonizing" and says many of Weber's key terms/concepts are virtually untranslatable, citing P's fave 'charisma'........[
which T. Parsons says Weber treated not only as a quality of an individual but also of a normative order...[See Pynchon's
remark on postwar America in GR, maybe?] .......
 
Weber made another distinction: between lineage--charisma and charisma of office. In this latter context, Weber's concept of
charisma is identical with Durkheim's concept of the sacred, Talcott Parson is always saying.....
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