| Summary: | In the realm of Brazilian sociology two readings of Webers works have been historically
prevalent, and each one had different repercussions on the diagnosis of the consolidation
of modernity in Brazil. The first one, relying on Webers political sociology and his sociology
of domination, has as its central authors Sergio Buarque de Holanda and Raymundo
Faoro. The second one, more recent one, stresses Webers historical-comparative sociology
of religions and is represented, among others, by authors such as Jessé Souza and Antonio
Flávio Pierucci. The article describes these different readings of Weber and shows how
different interpretations of the Brazilian reality are derived from them.
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