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By R. H. Tawney
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The study traces how religious ideas about social and economic life evolved between the medieval era and the early eighteenth century, arguing that shifts in doctrine and practice helped shape emerging economic categories. It surveys medieval attitudes toward social hierarchy and avarice; analyses continental Reformers' responses, especially Lutheran and Calvinist thought; examines the Church of England's positions on land, policy, and growing individualism; and follows Puritan debates over discipline, trade, and poverty relief. Throughout, it links theological arguments to changing social institutions and economic behavior, showing how religious ethics intersected with the rise of market-oriented virtues and new policies toward poverty.

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Title: Religion and the rise of capitalism

A historical study

Author: R. H. Tawney

Release date: July 18, 2023 [eBook #71223]

Language: English

Original publication: United States: Harcourth, Brace and Company, Inc, 1926

Credits: Lukas Bystricky and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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RELIGION AND THE RISE OF CAPITALISM

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

RELIGION
AND THE
RISE OF CAPITALISM

A HISTORICAL STUDY

(HOLLAND MEMORIAL LECTURES, 1922)

BY R. H. TAWNEY

READER IN ECONOMIC HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON; SOMETIME FELLOW OF BALLIOL COLLEGE, OXFORD

NEW YORK
HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1926, BY
HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY, INC.

PRINTED IN THE U. S. A. BY
QUINN & BODEN COMPANY, INC.
RAHWAY, N. J.

TO
DR. CHARLES GORE
WITH
AFFECTION AND GRATITUDE

“Whatever the world thinks, he who hath not much meditated upon God, the human mind, and the summum bonum, may possibly make a thriving earthworm, but will most indubitably make a sorry patriot and a sorry statesman.”

Bishop Berkeley, Siris, 350.