Popular Christianity (of the bible thumping kind) also has served proletarian political activism. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class provides concrete historical material on the role of populist religiosity, in this case Protestant Methodism, as the ideological basis for reformist working class movements in 18th and 19th century England. Victor Friedlander-Rakocz victor at kfar-hanassi.org.il ----- Original Message ----- From: <farmelantj at juno.com> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 21:42 Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Capitalism and Religious Fundamentalism
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>> Spirit of Capitalism. He posits that bible beating and
>> money making were joined at birth.
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> Which can then be followed with a chaser of R.H. Tawney's "Religion and
> the Rise of Capitalism" as a partial corrective to Weber.
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