Article(electronic)#12006
The Protestant Ethic in Protestant Thought: Max Weber in Protestant Memory
In: European journal of political theory: EJPT, Volume 5, Issue 4, p. 455-468
ISSN: 1741-2730
It is now one hundred years since the publication of Max Weber's essay that were to become known collectively as 'The Protestant Ethic & the 'Spirit' of Capitalism'. This article marks this event. Recent scholarship has made it impossible to ignore the complexity of Weber's original text, the history of its reception, & the political & religious context within which it was written. The Protestant Ethic is, in an important sense, a political text that seems to possess 'eternal youth'. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Ltd., copyright 2006.]