Destiny of Modern Societies

Milan Zafirovski, Ph.D. (1990) in Economics, University of Saint Cyril and Methodius, Macedonia, Ph.D. (1999) in Sociology, Florida International University, is Associate Professor of Sociology at University of North Texas. He has published several books, including Liberal Modernity and its Adversaries (Brill, 2007), and The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Authoritarianism (Springer, 2007).

• Introduction1. AMERICA’S DESTINY AND CALVINISM The “First New Nation” and European Calvinism Calvinism—The Genesis and the “Destiny” of America? Calvinist “Predestination” via the Puritan “Destiny” of America The Nature and Scope of the Calvinist “Predestination” of the “New Nation” Appendix: America’s “Destiny” and Tocqueville, Weber, and Marx2. AMERICA’S CALVINIST DESTINY IDENTIFIED AND SPECIFIED What Is America’s Calvinist “Destiny”?Bibliocracy from the Genesis to the Destiny The Calvinist Design and System of Theocracy Reconsidered From Calvinist Theocracy to the Moralistic “Tyranny of Puritanism” to “Moral Fascism”Calvinist Theocracy as Total Society Calvinist Theocracy as a Total Social System: Theocratic Subsystems 3. ECONOMIC SYSTEM OF CALVINIST THEOCRACYA Theocratic Master-Servant Economy Elements and Subtypes of the Calvinist Pure Master-Servant EconomyThe Calvinist Slave Economy Calvinist Feudal Servitude Elements of the Calvinist Diluted Master-Servant EconomyCalvinist Predatory Capitalism“Free Enterprise” Epilogue: Anti-Labor, Pro-Capital Economy—America’s Calvinist Economic “Destiny” 4. POLITICAL SYSTEM OF CALVINIST THEOCRACYTheocratic PolityTheocratic Polity: Formal Terms Theocratic Polity: Substantive Terms Theocratic cum Anti-Liberal PolityTheocratic Polity as a Non-Democratic GovernmentTheocratic AristocracyTheocratic OligarchyTheocratic Plutocracy 5. CIVIL SOCIETY OF CALVINIST THEOCRACYPuritan Moralistic Tyranny Rediscovering and Redefining Moral Fascism Syndromes of Puritan Moral Fascism The Legal-Institutional Mechanism of Puritan Moral FascismFrom a Free Private Sphere to a Coercive Monastic Order Global Moral Fascism—Pan-American “Manifest Destiny”? 6. CULTURAL SYSTEM OF CALVINIST THEOCRACYTheocratic CultureThe Puritan “Culture of Death”?The Adverse Fate of Aesthetic Culture in Calvinist Theocracy The Adverse Fate of Intellectual Culture in Calvinist Theocracy 7. CALVINISM RECONSIDERED Reconsidering CalvinismCalvinism’s Genesis Revisited The Dual Story of Calvinism: From an Abysmal Failure in the Old World to a Fateful Triumph in the New Nation The Spirit and Heritage of Calvinism Reconsidered Appendix: “Differences” between Calvinism and Puritanism Revisited 8. CONCLUSIONS“Destinies” of Human Societies The “Wealth and Destiny of Nations”The Calvinist-Capitalist Elective Affinity in the “New Nation”: Theocratic Capitalism?The Supreme Historical Irony? The Calvinist “French Connection” to America ReferencesIndex