Capitalism and Religion in World History: Purification and Progress

ISBN-13: 9781138303492 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 238 str.

Canada) Carl (University of Victoria Mosk

Opis

Amassing riches offered to a transcendental world, the priests of ancient faiths found themselves trapped in contradiction - loan out their resources to merchants: make yourself a pariah to true prophets. Before Islam squared the circle, bringing capital mobility enhancing credit creation into coexistence with devotion, religion stymied merchant capitalism. Spread through trade, Islam's innovations in commerce soothed the path to coexistence of credit and faith globally. Had a second form of capitalism - technological capitalism - not emerged binding science to innovation, harmony between faith and capitalism would prevail.

Spis treści

Part One: Predation, Fire and Prices  1. Idealism and Materialism in Economic History  2. Axial Thought Traditions: From Heroic Myth to Social Control  3. The Pendulum Swing in the Greek Axial Age  4. God as King in Jewish Monotheism  5. Predation, Gift Exchange, and Markets in the Roman Empire  6. One God, One Emperor Part Two: Merchant Capitalism  7. Islamic Merchant Capitalism  8. The Pendulum Swings of the High and Late Medieval West  9. Mercantilism and the Pendulum Swing  10. Japanese Merchant Capitalism Part Three: Technological Capitalism  11. The Pendulum Swing in Natural Philosophy  12. Nationalism and Imperialism  Part Four: Implications  13. Religious Nationalism and Technological Capitalism  14. Religious Civil War and the Religion Trap  15. Conclusions

O autorze

Carl Mosk is Emeritus Professor at the University of Victoria, Canada.