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Although not a detailed study of Protestantism but rather an introduction to Weber's later studies of interaction between various religious ideas and economics (The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism 1915, The Religion of India: The Sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism 1916, and Ancient Judaism 1917), The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism argues that Puritan ethics and ideas ...
Weber eventually realized that this odd custom (from a European point of view) acted as a kind of "credit check". [1] This worked for two reasons. First, membership in a Protestant sect was voluntary (unlike the state-sponsored Churches in Europe), and they only accepted members who had demonstrated a certain standard of behavior. Any member ...
ะก. Weber notes that Benjamin explicitly contrasts the spirit on the icons of the saints with the spirit of capitalism, although in both cases it is undoubtedly a spirit. Now the spirit "signifies" not individual suffering and the promise of transcendence, but the numerical measure of value as a social relation of power.
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In his 1904 book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Weber introduces the metaphor of an "iron cage": The Puritan wanted to work in a calling; we are forced to do so. For when asceticism was carried out of monastic cells into everyday life, and began to dominate worldly morality, it did its part in building the tremendous cosmos ...