Chuck, do you mean just Christian Protestant fundamentalism, or do you mean Jewish/Muslim/Hindu forms as well? (I'm not sure if "Catholic fundamentalism" makes any sense.)
--- andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Go back and read Weber's Protestant Ethic and the
> Spirit of Capitalism. He posits that bible beating
> and
> money making were joined at birth.
>
> --- "Mr. WD" <mister.wd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Out of sheer curiosity, I have a question: Is
> there
> > something
> > essential to the nature of capitalism that breeds
> > religious
> > fundamentalism -- a brand of religious
> > fundamentalism capitalism can't
> > necessarily assimilate? (I.e. it is easy to see
> why
> > a wishy-washy
> > "lifestyle" Christianity -- with its Christian
> > self-help books and so
> > forth -- is perfectly compatible with capitalism,
> > but what about this
> > really nasty Christofascism/"Jesus is the King of
> > America" stuff?
> > Enough of that ought to make the markets nervous
> --
> > and this is to say
> > nothing about Islamic fundamentalism...).
> >
> > I am well aware of how religious beliefs play into
> > the bosses' hands,
> > and I understand the "historically contingent"
> facts
> > concerning how
> > the U.S. has long been a magnet for Christian
> > fundamentalists, or how
> > various governments have financed jihadist
> > organizations to achieve
> > various short-term political goals (e.g. fighting
> > the Soviets or
> > Fatah). And certainly post-war U.S. economic
> growth
> > has given various
> > fundamentalist groups the resources to send
> > missionaries all over the
> > world to spread a very illiberal version of the
> > faith.
> >
> > What I wonder, though, is if there is a deeper
> > process at work here --
> > something that explains why illiberal religious
> > fundamentalism has
> > spread across the world alongside the supposedly
> > liberalizing forces
> > of capitalism. I am somewhat familiar with
> Adorno's
> > work on
> > irrational culture (e.g. astrology and occultism)
> > and capitalism, but
> > Christofascism and Jihadism seem to be
> qualitatively
> > distinct from the
> > L.A. Times astrology columns.
> >
> > OTOH, maybe I'm just looking for a "deep" answer
> > where none is necessary.
> >
> > -WD
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