ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |114 pages
Revising The Classics
chapter |13 pages
Religion, Ethics and Economic Interaction in Japan
Some arguments in a continuing discussion
chapter |12 pages
Religion and the Transition to a ‘New World Order'?
Some preliminary evidence from Canada
part |95 pages
The New Handmaid? Religion and the Empowerment of Capitalism
chapter |19 pages
Power and Empowerment
New Age managers and the dialectics of modernity/post-modernity
chapter |13 pages
Evangelical Religion and Capitalist Society in Chile
Historical context, social trajectory and current political and economic ethos
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part |104 pages
Religion and Modernity/Post-modernity—Capitalism and Cultures East and West
chapter |17 pages
Modernity or Pseudo-modernity? Secularization or Pseudo-secularization?
Reflections on East-Central Europe