Heavenly Merchandize: How Religion Shaped Commerce in Puritan America
Anyone who teaches colonial American history knows how deeply entrenched the Weber thesis on The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (English translation, 1930) is in the popular understanding of early American Puritanism. Many scholars as well as students have accepted as a given the Germ...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2011
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2011, Volume: 53, Issue: 2, Pages: 325-327 |
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| Summary: | Anyone who teaches colonial American history knows how deeply entrenched the Weber thesis on The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (English translation, 1930) is in the popular understanding of early American Puritanism. Many scholars as well as students have accepted as a given the German sociologist's argument that Calvinism provided validated secular vocations and the pursuit of wealth. In the past few decades, John Frederick Martin (Profits in the Wilderness [Chapel Hill, 1991]), Stephen Innes (Creating the Commonwealth: The Economic Culture of Puritan New England [NY, 1995]), and Mark A. |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csr033 |