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  1. Oct 4, 2019 · Capitalism, in other words, is the new religion, a system full of enchanted superstitions and unfounded beliefs and beholden to its own clerisy of economists and managers, its own...

  2. “Ben Friedman’s Religion and the Rise of Capitalism is an expansive and intricate tapestry depicting the progression and interaction of ideas and events in economics and (mainly Protestant) religion across four centuries.

  3. "Capitalism as Religion" (German: Kapitalismus als Religion) is Walter Benjamin's (1892—1940) unfinished work, written in 1921. It was published in 1985 and forms part of Benjamin's early sketches on social and political theory, religion, and the theory of history.

  4. Feb 19, 2018 · Capitalism as Religion. 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.

  5. Jun 9, 2020 · On Eugene McCarraher’s “The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity,” a fascinating study of the ways in which capitalism, despite its purported scientific rationality, is really a perverse kind of religion.

  6. Apr 5, 2022 · Religion and capitalism interacted at both macro-and micro-levels. Religion contributed to the great pre-modern divide between East and West. Through the Reformation, religion launched the individualism essential to bourgeois capitalism.

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  8. Indeed, as the purest form of credit is money, capitalism is a religion in which money is the God, and banks, through their ability to produce and govern credit, have replaced churches and are now the managers of faith.

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