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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Sport
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Pages: 431
Authors: Steven J. Overman
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: Mercer University Press

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Steven Overman explores the concordant values of the Protestant ethic, capitalism, and sport by applying German scholar Max Weber's seminal thesis. Weber demons
The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Language: en
Pages: 254
Authors: Rey Chow
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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A diverse set of texts from Foucault, Weber, Derrida and others are examined in this reconceptualization of the way ethnicity functions in capitalist society.
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Language: en
Pages: 321
Authors: Max Weber
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-04-19 - Publisher: Courier Corporation

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Author's best-known and most controversial study relates the rise of a capitalist economy to the Puritan belief that hard work and good deeds were outward signs
An Anxious Age
Language: en
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Authors: Joseph Bottum
Categories: Religion
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We live in a profoundly spiritual age, but not in any good way. Huge swaths of American culture are driven by manic spiritual anxiety and relentless supernatura
The Religious Ethic and Mercantile Spirit in Early Modern China
Language: en
Pages: 197
Authors: Ying-shih YĆ¼
Categories: Religion
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Why did modern capitalism not arise in late imperial China? One famous answer comes from Max Weber, whose The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism gave