Weber, Edmund2019-09-252019-09-252013-07-1519971434-5935http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/191124The Christian culture experienced a deep-going change with the uprising of the Civil Society ("Bürgerliche Gesellschaft"), the industrialization of economic production, the urbanization of life-style and the individualization of religiosity in the 19th century. The Christian formation of inner- and outer-world in those days became obsolete. From this conflict the civil or modern Christianity originated. In a painful changing process most of the people of this new society have newly interpreted religion, moral and ritual of traditional Christianity and created to their new conditions of life new institutional forms of transmission and realization of Christian cultural heritage. Under the recourse of the Reformatorian heritage the modern Christianity developed the religious-moral doctrine: A true Christian is before all a citizen who is living in the midst of the world self determinate and socially engaged fulfilling all his worldly duties; the modern Christian has to get this motivation for a world-oriented existence on his own responsibility because religion is not restricted anymore.engWith permission of the license/copyright holderhinduismHindu ethicsurbanizationChristian ethicsCultural ethicsCultural/intercultural ethicsReligious ethicsComparative religious ethicsCommunity ethicsLifestyle ethicsComparative religion and interreligious dialogueChristian-HinduArticle