Protestant Ethic Turns 100

William H. SwatosJr., Lutz Kaelber,

• Chapter 1 Friends and Foes, Hartmut Lehmann; Chapter 2 Dimensions of the Protestant Ethic, Martin Riesebrodt; Chapter 3 The Protestant Ethic and the “Spirit” of Capitalism as Grand Narrative, Donald A. Nielsen; Chapter 4 Remnants of Romanticism, Lawrence A. Scaff; Chapter 5 The Contexts of the Publication and Reception of the Protestant Ethic, William H. Swatos Jr., Kivisto Peter; Chapter 6 Rational Capitalism, Traditionalism, and Adventure Capitalism, Lutz Kaelber; Chapter 7 The Little Divergence, Philip S. Gorski; Chapter 8 Utilizing Max Weber’s “Iron Cage” to Define the Past, Present, and Future of the American Political Culture, Stephen Kalberg;

"The collective scholarship of this edited volume provides a grand overview of the history, assessment, and implications from a century of reflection on his text. The essays are fresh and interesting, and readily encourage an enlightened, contextual reading of Weber. Highly recommended." CHOICE