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According to Max Weber, “the fate of our times” is characterized by “disenchantment of the world.” The scientific ambition to rationally explain the world and the aspiration to control and master nature through technological calculation will greatly limit “beyond our control,” transcendent experiences. By scientifically uncovering causal chains, the world will ultimately be completely deprived of “mysterious incalculable forces”. As a consequence, religion will lose, Weber predicts, its reason.