Religion, Order, and Law"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 |
Contents
PART I INTRODUCTION | 1 |
2 Religion Order and Law and the Thought of Max Weber | 6 |
PART II THEOLOGY AND THE CONFLICT OF ORDER | 33 |
The Puritans | 81 |
5 The Old English Order and Its Anglican Defenders | 132 |
PART III LAW AND THE TENSIONS OF SOCIETY | 167 |
PART IV CONCLUSION | 218 |
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