Religion and The Transformation of Capitalism: Comparative Approaches / Edition 1

by Richard H. Roberts

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415119177
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/06/1995
Pages:	360
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1490L (what's this?)

About the Author

Richard Roberts is Professor of Divinity and Director of the Institute for Religion and the Human Sciences, University of St Andrews. He will shortly take up a Chair in Religious Studies at Lancaster University.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Richard H. Roberts; Part 1 Revising The Classics; Chapter 1 Max Weber, Capitalism and the Religion of India, David N. Gellner; Chapter 2 Islam and Capitalism, William H. Swatos Jr; Chapter 3 Religion, Ethics and Economic Interaction in Japan, Helmut Loiskandl; Chapter 4 Dynamic Complementarity, James H. Grayson; Chapter 5 Judaism and Capitalism, Paul Morris; Chapter 6 Religion and the Transition to a ‘New World Order’?, Peter Beyer; Part 2 The New Handmaid? Religion and the Empowerment of Capitalism; Chapter 7 Quasi-Religious Corporations, David G. Bromley; Chapter 8 America Loves Sweden, Simon M. Coleman; Chapter 9 Power and Empowerment, Richard H. Roberts; Chapter 10 The Gospel of Prosperity in West Africa, Rosalind I.J. Hackett; Chapter 11 Evangelical Religion and Capitalist Society in Chile, David Martin; Part 3 Religion and Modernity/Post-modernity—Capitalism and Cultures East and West; Chapter 12 Modernity or Pseudo-modernity? Secularization or Pseudo-secularization?, Ivan Varga; Chapter 13 Greek Orthodoxy and Modern Socio-economic Change, Nikos Kokosalakis; Chapter 14 Religion and the Demise of Socialism in Israeli Society, Stephen Sharot; Chapter 15 Religion and Capitalism in Australia, Alan W. Black; Chapter 16 Religion, Politics and Development in Malaysia, Anne Eyre; Chapter 17 The Post-deng Era and the Future of Religion in China, Julian F. Pas;

Editorial Reviews

‘Richard Roberts has assembled strong collection of high quality essays ... The present edition serves as an exempler of interdisciplinary analysis of religions in socio-cultural context. Anthropology, religious studies and sociology are brought together without retentivenss wih regard to subject boundries to engage constructively clearly with a single, if widely-ramifying poblemaic, the religion/capitalism matrix, partiularly in its state of relative flux in the condition of late modernity.' - Jrl of Contemporary Review

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