Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0024248606
ISBN 13
9780024248602
Category
Publication Year
1977
Publisher
Charles Scribner's Son, United States
Pages
lxxii, 392 p.
Subject
Capitalism --Religious aspects --Christianity. Christian sociology. Christian ethics. Protestant work ethic.
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Description
A brilliant book which studies the psychological conditions which made possible the development of capitalist civilization. The book analyzes the connection between the spread of Calvinism and a new attitude toward the pursuit of wealth in post-Reformation Europe and England, and attitude which permitted, encouraged–even sanctified–the human quest for prosperity. - from Amazon
Biblio Notes
Contents:
Religious affiliation and social stratification -- II. The spirit of capitalism -- III. Luther's conception of the calling -- IV. The Religious foundations of worldly asceticism: Calvinism, Pietism, Methodism, The Baptist sects -- V. Asceticism and the spirit of capitalism.
Bibliographical references included in "Notes."
Translator – Parsons, Talcott
Foreword – Tawney, R.H.
Religious affiliation and social stratification -- II. The spirit of capitalism -- III. Luther's conception of the calling -- IV. The Religious foundations of worldly asceticism: Calvinism, Pietism, Methodism, The Baptist sects -- V. Asceticism and the spirit of capitalism.
Bibliographical references included in "Notes."
Translator – Parsons, Talcott
Foreword – Tawney, R.H.
Number of Copies
1
