Religion, Order, and Law: A Study in Pre-Revolutionary England - Softcover

Little, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226485463 ISBN 13: 9780226485461

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1984

Synopsis

"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

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From the Back Cover:

'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

About the Author:

David Little is professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0226485463
• ISBN 13: 9780226485461
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288