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As a non-trivial explanatory model, the concept of "capitalism as religion" is reflected in the current socio-political discourse, in media publications on social, political and economic issues.
Three aspects, according to Benjamin, underpin this religion of modernity, with religion understood in Durkheimian terms as a shared system of beliefs that unite a given group: 1) capitalism is a cultic religion, where everything has meaning only in relation to the cult; 2) this cult is permanent, as there is no difference between working days and feast days; and 3) this cult is based on a ...
Calvin, Capitalism, and Predestination. By Michelle Sanchez. Benjamin Friedman’s Religion and the Rise of Capitalism argues that economics has been influenced by religious ideas from its inception and at every subsequent stage of its development. Friedman demonstrates this through a series of largely chronologically ordered chapters that show ...
Sep 20, 2018 · The paper reconsiders the Weber Thesis of a linkage between Calvinism and capitalism. It first restates this sociological Thesis in terms of the Calvinist doctrine of predestination as its theological core and premise in virtue of being treated as the crucial religious factor of the spirit of modern capitalism. Consequently, it proposes that the Weber Thesis’ validity and consistency depends ...
- Milan Zafirovski
- zafirovski@unt.edu
- 2018
Nov 24, 2016 · In his brief text entitled Capitalism as Religion (1921), Walter Benjamin defines capitalism as a ‘cultic religion’ (Kultreligion).In this text, much like its predecessor Theological-Political Fragment and the essay Critique of Violence, he lays the theoretical foundations—the first draft, if you will—for his understanding of the concept of history and his political theory.
- Mauro Ponzi
- 2017
Oct 18, 2023 · What this means for capitalism is a highly variable degree of state regulation, rather than none. It is one of the most characteristic features of the different varieties of capitalism. Finally, capitalism is characterized by a propensity for growth, which can be understood as the productive re-investment of profit.
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RELIGIOUS DOCTRINE, VALUES, AND ECONOMIC ATTITUDE CONSTRUCTS the whole of society but on the impoverished themselves (Feldman, 1983; Gurin et al., 1969; Kluegel and Smith, 1986). But if individualism has such explanatory power, what causes some people to be more individualistic than others? One source might be religious identity and belief.
