| Religion, Order, and Law Univ of Chicago Edition Contributor(s): Little, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0226485463 ISBN-13: 9780226485461 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $36.63 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1984 Annotation: 'Weber's famous study of the 'affinity' between the rise of rational bourgeois capitalism in England and Calvinist-Puritanism has for almost a century stirred up a cloud of dust and misunderstanding. Toward the end of settling some of the dust no one has previously made such an acute analysis of pre-revolutionary England as has David Little. On the one hand, he has applied and extended Weber's method, especially in the sphere of the law-monopoly and corporation law-thus filling a gap in these studies. He has also delineated the sharply conflicting conceptions of social order and of legitimation. On the the other hand, Little has given an invaluable critical survey of the extensive literature of Weber's thesis. This is a landmark in the study of the complex and varying relations between religion and society.' -James Luther Adams, Harvard Divinity School |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology Of Religion |
| Dewey: 261.094 |
| LCCN: 84002611 |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 5.28" W x 7.97" (0.62 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The issue of the Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism has been debated endlessly, but few scholars have seriously continued Weber's own research into the Reformation sources of seventeenth-century England. David Little's study was one of the first to do so, and remains an important contribution.--Guenther Roth, University of Washington |