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1. scholar.harvard.edu › religion-and-rise-capitalismReligion and the Rise of Capitalism | Benjamin Friedman

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   “ Religion and the Rise of Capitalism takes longstanding debates over religion and capitalism in a surprising new direction. Benjamin Friedman makes his case with the erudition and particularity of a leading academic economist.

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2. www.thenation.com › article › archiveHas Capitalism Become Our Religion? - The Nation

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   Oct 4, 2019 · There’s a tendency among religious critics of capitalism to focus their ire on consumerism, which becomes nothing more than a moral failing for which frugality becomes the healing virtue.

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4. culturematters.org.uk › index › cultureReligion and capitalism - Culture Matters

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   Feb 19, 2018 · A proposal doing the rounds of late suggests that capitalism has replaced traditional religion as the faith of many people around the globe. The emphases and sources vary – ranging from Walter Benjamin’s fragment from 1921 called ‘Capitalism as Religion’ to Buddhist criticisms – but the outline is largely similar.

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   Apr 20, 2015 · In Kevin Kruse’s One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America, the author lays out a deftly detailed history of Christianity’s service to capitalism in the United ...

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6. cswr.hds.harvard.edu › news › 2021/04/26Video: Religion and the Rise of Capitalism | Center for the ...

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   Apr 20, 2021 · Where do our ideas about how the economy works, and our views on economic policy, come from? Critics of contemporary economics complain that belief in free markets, among economists as well as many ordinary citizens, is a form of religion.

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   Benjamin Friedman’s Religion and the Rise of Capitalism challenges scholarly truisms by showing how a set of Protestant theological claims influenced economic thought and practice. By Devin Singh Current

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   How did religion influence the rise of capitalism?

   • By Devin Singh In Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, Ben Friedman provides an accessible and engaging story of how certain key concepts in modern economic thought, such as the market mechanism, competition, and comparative advantage, were shaped in part by the ferment in religious thought initiated by the Protestant Reformation.

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   Is capitalism a form of religion?

   • Capitalism is sometimes compared to a religion due to its requiring one to believe in an all-powerful being - in this case, money. Some argue that it can give one power over others, if not determining who lives and who dies.

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   Does Catholicism criticize capitalism?

   • But within the Catholic tradition, criticism of capitalism is perfectly common: It is only in the U.S. context, beset by a curious interlude of manufactured hypercapitalist Christianity, that the Pope’s economics seem jarring. Capital, Aschoff observes, is inclined to glide from one narrative to the next as its needs change.

   Gods and Profits: How Capitalism and Christianity Aligned in America

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   Is modern rationalism more extreme than capitalism?

   • One would be hard-pressed to find a form of modern rationalism more extreme than capitalism. The laws of supply and demand and the commodification of goods like health and education strip away the mystery and sense of sacredness that were once a vital part of human life.

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   What influenced the rise of capitalism?

   • Professor Friedman's answer in a nutshell is that the rise of capitalism was deeply influenced by religious thought, particularly Protestant thought. So I'm going to introduce Professor Friedman now and ask him to give us an overview of his book.

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   Could Christianity be capitalism's most impressive conscription?

   • This is only one of the many accounts which have been absorbed into the vast narrative support structure of capitalism—that is, the series of stories that make life under capitalism seem plausible, positive, and even necessary. In the United States, Christianity might be capitalism’s most impressive conscription so far.

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9. daily.jstor.org › john-calvin-religious-reformerJohn Calvin: The Religious Reformer Who Influenced Capitalism

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   Jul 10, 2017 · Calvin’s belief in predestination and other tenets embraced by aggressive capitalists, is seen as giving the theological justification for a Protestant vision that propelled economic growth in Europe, Britain and, eventually, North America.