Religion and the Rise of CapitalismR.H. Tawney Routledge, 29 wrz 2017 - 337 In one of the truly great classics of twentieth-century political economy, R. H. Tawney addresses the question of how religion has affected social and economic practices. He does this by a relentless tracking of the influence of religious thought on capitalist economy and ideology since the Middle Ages. In so doing he sheds light on why Christianity continues to exert a unique role in the marketplace. In so doing, the book offers an incisive analysis of the historical background of present morals and mores in Western culture.Religion and the Rise of Capitalism is even more pertinent now than when it first was published; for today it is clearer that the dividing line between spheres of religion and secular business is shifting, that economic interests and ethical considerations are no longer safely locked in separate compartments. By examining that period which saw the transition from medieval to modern theories of social organization, Tawney clarifies the most pressing problems of the end of the century. In tough, muscular, richly varied prose, he tells an absorbing and meaningful story. And in his new introduction, which may well be a classic in its own right, Adam Seligman details Tawney's entire background, the current status of social science thought on these large issues, and a comparative analysis of Tawney with Max Weber that will at once delight and inform readers of all kinds. |
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... souls and scale them down because they are not economically useful . God forbid that they shld [ sic ] be ! 13 Tawney , for whom the very existence of social order depended on the recognition of obligation , could not accept such a mate ...
... souls and scale them down because they are not economically useful . God forbid that they shld [ sic ] be ! 13 Tawney , for whom the very existence of social order depended on the recognition of obligation , could not accept such a mate ...
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... soul and its Maker - divinely commissioned hierarchy , sys- tematized activities , corporate institutions , drops away , as the blasphemous trivialities of a religion of works . The medieval conception of the social order , which had ...
... soul and its Maker - divinely commissioned hierarchy , sys- tematized activities , corporate institutions , drops away , as the blasphemous trivialities of a religion of works . The medieval conception of the social order , which had ...
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... soul with its Maker , how true and in- dispensable ! But how easy to slip from that truth into the suggestion that society is without responsibility , that no man can help his brother , that the social order and its consequences are not ...
... soul with its Maker , how true and in- dispensable ! But how easy to slip from that truth into the suggestion that society is without responsibility , that no man can help his brother , that the social order and its consequences are not ...
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... soul , not without some sighs of sober satisfaction at its abdication from society.57 Here the reader finds a somewhat different emphasis than that of Max Weber on the relation of religion and modernity and one that is perhaps of more ...
... soul , not without some sighs of sober satisfaction at its abdication from society.57 Here the reader finds a somewhat different emphasis than that of Max Weber on the relation of religion and modernity and one that is perhaps of more ...
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II The Continental Reformers | 63 |
III The Church of England | 133 |
IV The Puritan Movement | 195 |
V Conclusion | 275 |
Notes | 289 |
Index | 327 |
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