Religion, Business and Wealth in Modern Britain

Herausgeber: Jeremy, David

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The relationship of economics, capitalism and wealth to the ethics and morality of religion has intrigued and challenged policymakers, pressure groups, theologians, sociologists, economists and historians for centuries. Here David Jeremy addresses these questions in the context of modern Britain. His preliminary survey of historical controversies within religion and business, and the accompanying chronology of significant events since the 1770s are an extremely useful introduction for those unfamiliar with the field.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 164mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9780415168984
• ISBN-10: 0415168988
• Artikelnr.: 21148074

Autorenporträt

David J. Jeremy, Professor of Business History, The Manchester Metropolitan University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: debates about interactions between religion, business and
wealth in modern Britain Part I The relationship between religion and
political economy 1 Christianity, secularisation and political economy
2 From canon to cannon fire: religion and economics, 1730-1850 Part II
Nonconformists and wealth 3 Methodism and wealth, 1740-1860 4
Late-Victorian and Edwardian Methodist businessmen and wealth 5 The Wiener
thesis vindicated: the onslaught of 1994 upon the reputation of John
Rylands of Manchester 6 Max Weber, religion and the work ethic Part III
Quakers and wealth 7 The Society of Friends and business culture, 1700-1830
8 Changing Quaker attitudes to wealth, 1690-1950 Part IV Ethnicity,
religion and wealth 9 Ethnicity and money making in nineteenth-century
Britain 10 The Weber thesis, ethnic minorities and British entrepreneurship
11 Ethnicity, religion and wealth: a commentary on the uses of Max Weber