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Bezig met laden... Religie en de opkomst van het kapitalisme een historische studie (1926)door R. H. Tawney
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. paperback Tawney, an economic historian, examines the influence of faith on the current (in his case the 1920s revised in the 1930s) economic world. Specifically, he focuses on the rise of individualistic capitalism. He describes the transition from the era when usury was sin, and making money from money was contrary to the tenets of faith; to an era when Puritan development separated church and economy completely. Hard work and self-reliance became virtues while sloth and dependence became vices. The book is beautifully written with exquisite prose that enlivens the history as it's presented. I am also happy to say it is a book that sent me to the dictionary on many occasion geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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