ABSTRACT
Faith aims at a transcendent God, whereas the immanent object of trust is man. Faith and trust play an important role in Max Weber’s thesis because he recognizes in Calvinism’s peculiar theology of grace, with its emphasis on solely trusting in God, the indirect source for a work ethic that seeks to gain a sign of religious salvation in successful work, leading to the accumulation of capital by ascetic Protestants and a restraining of consumption. The relationship between death and religion broadly understood is especially well investigated by terror management theory, a social psychology following the work of cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker. The perspective of the world religions demands the desacralization of money and the market. A de-deified market that is no longer master of the society but its servant can benefit human life.
