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AbstractExploration of the roots of accumulating environmental degradation has reached to the very foundations of Western civilization. The dominant critiques of these foundations primarily focus on two cosmologies: monism and dualism. The purpose of this paper is to examine these foundations from a Weberian perspective and to offer a little known alternative: immanent dualism. This alternative cosmology suggests that religion could help reorganize late industrial capitalism.

Poverty: caring for the poor -- Evangelism: proclaiming the good news -- The environment: tending God's creation -- Prisoners: befriending the outcast -- The oppressed: upholding the downtrodden -- The elderly: honoring the wise -- The sick and disabled: serving the afflicted -- Immigrants: helping those new to our land -- The world: caring for the people of all nations -- Take action: ideas for healthy activism -- A final project: make poverty history