This study traces how Rudolf Steiner 18611925 founder of Anthroposophy and the Waldorf schools and the sociologist Max Weber 18641920 confronted the societal transformations in findesicle Germany as their primary identity marker Bildung or selfformation began to break down. The book documents the German bourgeoisies failure to modernise as an imagined community shedding new light on the larger question about the interrelationship of science religion and culture by situating Webers and Steiners work into the broader context of the sociocultural and sociopolitical transformations during which it was created. Moreover by exploring the influences across disciplines in a historical context the book provides insight into the cultural implications of new social science and religion at the beginning of the twentieth century.