The Protestant ethic revisited
By: Philip S. Gorski
Series: Politics, history, and social change; Politics, history, and social change
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9781439901892
Subjects: Protestant churches; Protestant work ethic; Religion and sociology; Capitalism
Description: In "The Protestant Ethic Revisited", pioneering sociologist Philip Gorski revisits the question raised by Max Weber in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism about how the Christian West was reshaped by the world-changing energies of the Calvinist movement. Gorski not only considers the perennial debate about religion and capitalism, but he also devotes particular attention to the influence of Calvinism on the political development of the West. "The Protestant Ethic Revisited" is a masterful new collection of Gorski's essays on religion and comparative historical sociology. Reflecting the aim of much of Gorski's work, this anthology shows how nationalism, secularism, politics, and religion in public life are olderoand less stableothan previously thought.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: beyond the Tilly thesis: how states did not make war and war did not make states; title: The Protestant ethic revisited: disciplinary revolution and state formation in Holland and Prussia; title: Calvinism and revolution: the Walzer thesis reconsidered; title: The mosaic moment: an early modernist critique of modernist theories of nationalism; title: The making of Prussian absolutism: confessional conflict and state autonomy under the great elector, 1640-1688; title: The little divergence: the protestant reformation and economic hegemony in early modern Europe; title: Historicizing the secularization debate: church, state, and society in late medieval and early modern Europe, circa 1300 to 1700; title: After secularization? / Philip S. Gorski, Ates Altinordu; title: Conclusion: the protestant ethic and the secular modern.