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The Protestant Ethic Debate: Max Weber's Replies to His Critics, 1907-1910 » Read Now
by David J. Chalcraft, Austin Harrington, Mary Shields. 149 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism continues to be one of the most influential texts in the sociology of modern Western societies. Although Weber never produced the further essays with which he intended to extend the study, he did complete four lengthy Replies to...
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Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism continues to be one of the most influential texts in the sociology of modern Western societies. Although Weber never produced the further essays with which he intended to extend the study, he did complete four lengthy Replies to reviews of the text by two German historians. Written between 1907 and 1910, the Replies offer a fascinating insight into Weber’s intentions in the original study, and the present volume is the first complete translation of all four Replies in English.
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The Protestant Ethic and Modernization: A Comparative View » Read Now
by S. N. Eisenstadt. 407 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library
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On Being Human Religiously: Selected Essays in Religion and Society (Chap. 12 "The Protestant Ethic and Society: Max Weber") » Read Now
by James Luther Adams, Max L. Stackhouse. 257 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library
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Self-Help and Popular Religion in Early American Culture: An Interpretive Guide (Chap. 3 "The Protestant Ethic and Puritan New England") » Read Now
by Roy M. Anker. 246 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

One of two volumes on the relationship between popular religion and the self-help tradition in American culture, this book focuses on early America, from the Protestant Ethic and Puritan New England through Revivalism and American Romanticism. The concept of self-help is a distinctive part of the...
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One of two volumes on the relationship between popular religion and the self-help tradition in American culture, this book focuses on early America, from the Protestant Ethic and Puritan New England through Revivalism and American Romanticism. The concept of self-help is a distinctive part of the American character of individualism. This volume provides an introductory interpretive guide to major self-help figures and movements with origins in popular religious movements. The opening chapter recounts the perspectives and conclusions of previous histories of American self-help and includes analyses of several important related works. The following chapters present a historical narrative that traces those junctures where American history and popular religion have reputedly and actually intersected. In surveying the historical and scholarly materials that depict the history of popular religion and self-help, this volume emphasizes the historiographical debates that shape the interpretation of the ideas and figures.
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Religious Melancholy and Protestant Experience in America (Chap. 1 "The Protestant Ethic and the Melancholy Spirit") » Read Now
by Julius H. Rubin. 310 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

This original examination of the spiritual narratives of conversion in the history of American Protestant evangelical religion reveals an interesting paradox. Fervent believers who devoted themselves completely to the challenges of making a Christian life, who longed to know God's rapturous love...
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This original examination of the spiritual narratives of conversion in the history of American Protestant evangelical religion reveals an interesting paradox. Fervent believers who devoted themselves completely to the challenges of making a Christian life, who longed to know God's rapturous love, all too often languished in despair, feeling forsaken by God. Ironically, those most devoted to fostering the soul's maturation neglected the well-being of the psyche. Drawing upon many sources, including unpublished diaries and case studies of patients treated in nineteenth-century asylums, Julius Rubin's fascinating study thoroughly explores religious melancholy--as a distinctive stance toward life, a grieving over the loss of God's love, and an obsession and psychopathology associated with the spiritual itinerary of conversion. The varieties of this spiritual sickness include sinners who would fast unto death ("evangelical anorexia nervosa"), religious suicides, and those obsessed with unpardonable sin. From colonial Puritans like Michael Wigglesworth to contemporary evangelicals like Billy Graham, among those who directed the course of evangelical religion and of their followers, Rubin shows that religious melancholy has shaped the experience of self and identity for those who sought rebirth as children of God.
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The Sociology of Religion: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives (Chap. 13 "The Protestant Ethic Debate") » Read Now
by Malcolm Hamilton. 310 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

This clear introduction to the sociology of religion combines a discussion of key theorists with a modern emphasis on the diversity of religious beliefs and practices. Malcolm Hamilton's expanded second edition brings the discussion fully up-to-date, and extends its material on secularization and...
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This clear introduction to the sociology of religion combines a discussion of key theorists with a modern emphasis on the diversity of religious beliefs and practices. Malcolm Hamilton's expanded second edition brings the discussion fully up-to-date, and extends its material on secularization and religious sects, giving a broad comparative view. Drawing on the insights of history, anthropology and sociology, he surveys classic and contemporary theory to give a full picture of the variety and scope of theoretical perspectives.
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The Protestant Ethic, in World Policy Journal » Read Now
by Daniel Bell. 5 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library
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The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (Chap. 1 "The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism") » Read Now
by Daniel Bell. 366 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library