Water Christianity And The Rise Of Capitalism

Author : Terje Oestigaard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780857733221

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Water, Christianity and the Rise of Capitalism by Terje Oestigaard Pdf

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.

Author : Richard Henry Tawney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : UOM:49015000968041

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Religion and the Rise of Capitalism by Richard Henry Tawney Pdf

Author : R. H. Tawney
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781781682388

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Religion and the Rise of Capitalism by R. H. Tawney Pdf

A classic of political economy that traces the influence of religious thought on capitalism In one of the true classics of twentieth-century political economy, R. H. Tawney investigates the way religion has moulded social and economic practice. He tracks the influence of religious thought on capitalist economy and ideology since the Middle Ages, shedding light on the question of why Christianity continues to exert a unique role in the marketplace. The book offers an incisive analysis of the morals and mores of contemporary Western culture. In tough, muscular, richly varied prose, Tawney tells an absorbing and meaningful story. Today, the dividing line between the spheres of religion and the secular is shifting, and Religion and the Rise of Capitalism is more pertinent than ever.

Author : Vigo Auguste Demant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : UOM:39015001663858

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Religion and the Decline of Capitalism by Vigo Auguste Demant Pdf

Author : R. H Tawney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1684227690

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Religion and the Rise of Capitalism by R. H Tawney Pdf

2022 Reprint of the 1926 edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition and reproduced with Optical Recognition. Also includes the 1937 updated introduction by Tawney. 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 tough, muscular, richly varied prose, he tells an absorbing and meaningful story. Tawney's work is a direct response to Weber's famous treatise on the Protestant Ethic. In Religion and the Rise of Capitalism Tawney accepts Weber's main premise but argues that political and social pressures and the spirit of individualism with its ethic of self-help and frugality were more significant factors in the development of capitalism than was Calvinist theology. Contents: The medieval background. The continental reformers. The Church of England. The Puritan movement.

Author : Kathryn Tanner
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300241129

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Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism by Kathryn Tanner Pdf

One of the world’s most celebrated theologians argues for a Protestant anti-work ethicIn his classic The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Max Weber famously showed how Christian beliefs and practices could shape persons in line with capitalism. In this significant reimagining of Weber’s work, Kathryn Tanner provocatively reverses this thesis, arguing that Christianity can offer a direct challenge to the largely uncontested growth of capitalism.Exploring the cultural forms typical of the current finance-dominated system of capitalism, Tanner shows how they can be countered by Christian beliefs and practices with a comparable person-shaping capacity. Addressing head-on the issues of economic inequality, structural under- and unemployment, and capitalism’s unstable boom/bust cycles, she draws deeply on the theological resources within Christianity to imagine anew a world of human flourishing. This book promises to be one of the most important theological books in recent years.

Author : Rodney Stark
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812972337

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The Victory of Reason by Rodney Stark Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1140655396

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Religion and the Rise of Capitalism by Anonim Pdf

Author : Terje Tvedt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857725400

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Water and Society by Terje Tvedt Pdf

Despite the central importance that water has held for civilizations both ancient and modern, its social significance has made surprisingly little impact on our contemporary understanding of human history and development. Dominant interpretations of the relationship between society and nature have remained water blind. In Water and Society historian and leading water expert Terje Tvedt argues for a change that acknowledges the significant role played by water in societal development. Reflecting his expertise as a geographer, historian and a political scientist, and drawing on his wide experience of water issues around the world, Terje Tvedt s Water and Society provides a long overdue reappraisal of the relationship between water and society, one that gives water its rightful place as central to any true understanding of human history and development."

Author : Richard Henry Tawney
Publisher : London : J. Murray
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : OCLC:249849973

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Religion and the Rise of Capitalism : an Historical Study by Richard Henry Tawney Pdf

Author : Anders Kaliff
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443858762

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Religion at Work in Globalised Traditions by Anders Kaliff Pdf

Why do traditions disappear? How is the disappearance of tradition also a vehicle for social change and re-inventions of practices and new traditions? Using case studies from one Sukuma area along the southern shores of Lake Victoria in Tanzania, global processes of how religions work in practice are analysed by focusing on rainmaking, witchcraft and Christianity. Traditionally, Sukuma society was culturally and cosmologically structured around the chief, the ancestors and rainmaking. Everything was dependent upon the rain. Rainmaking as a ritual practice has disappeared and ancestral propitiations are declining, while, at the same time, Christianity is spreading and witchcraft and witch killings are increasing. Although Christianity as a religion may provide answers and hopes for life after death, the religion provides few solutions in the here and now when it comes to poverty and suffering; problems and challenges that have to be solved. Witchcraft, on the other hand, does, or is believed to do so – and the increase in witchcraft is analysed in relation to the impacts of more than a century of globalisation from the missionaries and colonizers onwards. With the declining ancestral tradition, witchcraft and Christianity as religious practices supplement each other in the ways they are believed to work in providing answers, solutions or divine interferences in different realms; this world and the Otherworld. Offering an approach going beyond structural functionalism on different premises, the book’s focus on religion at work will facilitate new understandings of how to study religion as it is perceived and believed in practice.

Author : Terje Oestigaard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781838609641

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The Religious Nile by Terje Oestigaard Pdf

The Nile is arguably the most famous river in the world. For millennia, the search for its source defeated emperors and explorers. Yet the search for its source also contained a religious quest - a search for the origin of its divine and life-giving waters. Terje Oestigaard reveals how the beliefs associated with the river have played a key role in the cultural development and make-up of the societies and civilizations associated with it. Drawing upon his personal experience and fieldwork in Africa, including details of rites and ceremonies now fast disappearing, the author brings out in rich detail the religious and spiritual meanings attached to the life-giving waters by those whose lives are so bound to the river. Part religious quest, part exploration narrative, the author shows how this mighty river is a powerful source for a greater understanding of human nature, society and religion.

Author : R. H. Tawney,Charles Gore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1621387321

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Religion and the Rise of Capitalism by R. H. Tawney,Charles Gore Pdf

R.H. Tawney examines religion and capitalism side-by-side, not as polar entities but as mutually responsive to each other. He shows how changes and developments in the religious sphere had a profound impact on the economic realm.

Author : Max Weber
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2002-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780140439212

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The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism by Max Weber Pdf

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 : Jane Costlow,Arja Rosenholm
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317099215

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Meanings and Values of Water in Russian Culture by Jane Costlow,Arja Rosenholm Pdf

Bringing together a team of scholars from the diverse fields of geography, literary studies, and history, this is the first volume to study water as a cultural phenomenon within the Russian/Soviet context. Water in this context is both a cognitive and cultural construct and a geographical and physical phenomenon, representing particular rivers (the Volga, the Chusovaia in the Urals, the Neva) and bodies of water (from Baikal to sacred springs and the flowing water of nineteenth-century estates), but also powerful systems of meaning from traditional cultures and those forged in the radical restructuring undertaken in the 1930s. Individual chapters explore the polyvalence and contestation of meanings, dimensions, and values given to water in various times and spaces in Russian history. The reservoir of symbolic association is tapped by poets and film-makers but also by policy-makers, the popular press, and advertisers seeking to incite reaction or drive sales. The volume's emphasis on the cultural dimensions of water will link material that is often widely disparate in time and space; it will also serve as the methodological framework for the analysis undertaken both within chapters and in the editors' introduction.