Holy Capitalism

Author : Dr. Richard E. Itteilag
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1477217371
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holy Capitalism written by Dr. Richard E. Itteilag and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gates/Ellison Unemployment Trap. I.e., productivity v. unemployment or the Productivity Trap or the more the US economy innovates the more the US economy creates unemployment. The thesis here is that in United States (U.S.) capitalism, unemployment is 'sticky' at 9+% permanently regardless of U.S. government fiscal policy or even Federal Reserve Bank monetary policy.

Author : Peter L. Berger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Capitalist Spirit written by Peter L. Berger and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a team of scholars to discuss whether capitalism is moral. Berger and his colleagues challenge what they see as an uniformed and simplistic repudiation of capitalism on the part of many religious thinkers in the West. The contributors want more attention to be given to the creation of wealth, as against a simpleminded, socialist emphasis on the redistribution of wealth. David Novak offers a Jewish analysis of economics and justice; Michael Novak explores the development of Christian economic thinking; George Weigel examines recent Roman Catholic thinking on the subject. Other contributors include Richard John Neuhaus and Walter Block. ISBN 1-55815-112-5: $18.95.

Author : R.H. Tawney
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351493833
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and the Rise of Capitalism written by R.H. Tawney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Philip Goodchild
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415282246
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capitalism and Religion written by Philip Goodchild and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do religions justify and cause violence or are they more appropriately seen as forces for peace and tolerance? Featuring contributions from international experts in the field, this book explores the debate that has emerged in the context of secular modernity about whether religion is a primary cause of social division, conflict and war, or whether this is simply a distortion of the 'true' significance of religion and that if properly followed it promotes peace, harmony, goodwill and social cohesion. Focusing on how this debate is played out in the South Asian con.

Author : Francis Ching-Wah Yip
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674021479
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capitalism as Religion? A Study of Paul Tillich's Interpretation of Modernity written by Francis Ching-Wah Yip and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between religion and modern culture remains a controversial issue within Christian theology. Using the concept of “cultural modernity,” Francis Ching-Wah Yip reconstructs Paul Tillich’s interpretation of modernity and shows that Tillich’s notion of theonomy served to underscore the problems of modernity and to develop a response.

Author : Richard H. Roberts
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134813503
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and The Transformation of Capitalism written by Richard H. Roberts and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses from a socio-scientific standpoint the interaction of religions and forms of contemporary capitalism. Contributors explore a wide range of interactions between economic systems and their socio-cultural contexts.

Author : Max Weber
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140439218
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism written by Max Weber and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-04-30 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Protestant Ethic, Max Weber opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and relates the rise of the capitalist economy to the Calvinist belief in the moral value of hard work and the fulfillment of one's worldly duties. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Rodney Stark
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 158836500X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Victory of Reason written by Rodney Stark and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many books have been written about the success of the West, analyzing why Europe was able to pull ahead of the rest of the world by the end of the Middle Ages. The most common explanations cite the West’s superior geography, commerce, and technology. Completely overlooked is the fact that faith in reason, rooted in Christianity’s commitment to rational theology, made all these developments possible. Simply put, the conventional wisdom that Western success depended upon overcoming religious barriers to progress is utter nonsense.In The Victory of Reason, Rodney Stark advances a revolutionary, controversial, and long overdue idea: that Christianity and its related institutions are, in fact, directly responsible for the most significant intellectual, political, scientific, and economic breakthroughs of the past millennium. In Stark’s view, what has propelled the West is not the tension between secular and nonsecular society, nor the pitting of science and the humanities against religious belief. Christian theology, Stark asserts, is the very font of reason: While the world’s other great belief systems emphasized mystery, obedience, or introspection, Christianity alone embraced logic and reason as the path toward enlightenment, freedom, and progress. That is what made all the difference.In explaining the West’s dominance, Stark convincingly debunks long-accepted “truths.” For instance, by contending that capitalism thrived centuries before there was a Protestant work ethic–or even Protestants–he counters the notion that the Protestant work ethic was responsible for kicking capitalism into overdrive. In the fifth century, Stark notes, Saint Augustine celebrated theological and material progress and the institution of “exuberant invention.” By contrast, long before Augustine, Aristotle had condemned commercial trade as “inconsistent with human virtue”–which helps further underscore that Augustine’s times were not the Dark Ages but the incubator for the West’s future glories. This is a sweeping, multifaceted survey that takes readers from the Old World to the New, from the past to the present, overturning along the way not only centuries of prejudiced scholarship but the antireligious bias of our own time. The Victory of Reason proves that what we most admire about our world–scientific progress, democratic rule, free commerce–is largely due to Christianity, through which we are all inheritors of this grand tradition.

Author : J. Sung
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137001720
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Subject, Capitalism, and Religion written by J. Sung and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-11-09 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to fight for a more just society, it is necessary to elaborate upon the theoretical reflections that critically analyze the faith and myths that support and legitimize the trajectory of contemporary capitalism and its utopia, as well as the faith and the complex relation that exists in between the notions of the subject and societies.

Author : Terje Oestigaard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857733222
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Water, Christianity and the Rise of Capitalism written by Terje Oestigaard and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-22 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Christian religion is deeply imbued with the imagery of water, and water plays a central role in its religious practices, not least in baptism. Yet the wider role of water in Christianity has been little explored. In this pioneering book, Terje Oestigaard uses the dramatic changes that took place in perceptions of water during the Reformation to reveal the importance that water played in structuring society and religion in the post-Reformation period. Prior to the Reformation, most common people believed misfortune and catastrophe were caused by the devil, and sought protection in the use of holy water blessed by the local priest. Holy water and holy wells gave laypeople a powerful weapon which could be used to keep the devil away, cure illness and protect fields, property and family. But with the Reformation, the nature of holy water was challenged and belief in the efficacy of holy water and holy wells was attacked as Popish magic and superstition: the status of holy water became one of the main battlegrounds between Protestants and Catholics. The author explores these conflicting views on the spiritual qualities of water and their consequences for society at large. He traces the changing views of nature that arose with Enlightenment developments in the scientific understanding of water and the hydrological cycle, and shows how the emergence of a natural theology helped encourage a belief in the Protestant work ethic whereby wealth and economic success equated with religious excellence. The author concludes by examining - and challenging - Weber's claim that the protestant work ethic and capitalist spirit of enterprise that was so important to the later success of the Industrial Revolution came about when magic and superstition were eliminated from religion by the Reformation. The result is a highly original work that provides one of the most detailed explorations of the importance of the role of water in structuring society and religion in post-Reformation England. Offering fresh insights into the development of society and religion, it will be welcomed by all those with an interest in water, religion, sociology, and the Reformation period.