Joachim Wach

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Joachim Ernst Adolphe Felix Wach (German: January 25, 1898 – August 27, 1955) was a German religious scholar and sociologist of religion from Chemnitz. He emphasized the significance and importance of

Writings

• Der Erlösungsgedanke und seine Deutung (1922)
• Das Verstehen: Grundzüge einer Geschichte der hermeneutischen Theorie im 19. Jahrhundert (3 vols, 1926–1933)
• Religionswissenschaft: Prolegomena zu ihrer wissenschaftstheoretischen Grundlegung (1924)
• Meister und Jünger : zwei religionssoziologische Betrachtungen (1924)
• Sociology of Religion (1947)
• Types of Religious Experience: Christian and Non-Christian (1951)
• The Comparative Study of Religions (posthumous, 1958)
• Understanding and Believing: Essays (1968)
• Introduction to the History of Religions (1988: English translation of Religionswissenschaft

https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid=ICU.SPCL.WACHGuide to the Joachim Wach Papers] University of Chicago

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