by Max Weber
see also specific sects
self-control, 81 – 82, 177
servants, 199
Seville, 289
sexuality, 107, 309
shell as hard as steel (iron cage; stahlhartes Gehäuse), xxiv, lxx–lxxi, 13, 121
sin, 100, 146, 147
mortal vs. venial, 140
original, 180
repentance for, see repentance
wasting time as, 106 – 7, 176, 191
singing, 192
social economics, xxxv–xxxvii
socialism, 363, 364
social stratification, religious denominations and, 1 – 8, 223 – 24, 253
Society of Friends, see Quakers
Socinians, 173
sociology, xxix, xxxvi–xxxvii
“Song of Solomon,” 150, 154
Soziallehren der christlichen Kirchen und Gruppen, Die (Troeltsch), 344
spirit of capitalism, see capitalist spirit
sports, 113, 148
stahlhartes Gehäuse (shell as hard as steel; iron cage), xxiv, lxx–lxxi, 13, 121
standardization, 114
state, 358
antiauthoritarianism and, 113, 172, 211 – 12
relationship of church and, 156, 171, 210
Structure of Social Action, The (Parsons), xxvii–xxviii
style of life, see conduct of life
subsistence economy, 19
Swiss Protestant Reformation, 41n
Synod of Dort (Dordrecht), 39n, 70, 72, 138, 153, 193, 271
Talmud, 189, 197
technology, 364 – 65, 366
Terminism, 91
test, being put to, see proof of God’s election
Theory of Business Enterprise, The (Veblen), 331
time, 178
wasting of, 106 – 7, 176, 191, 313
toleration, 115, 155, 166, 245
Rachfahl’s critique and, 252 – 53, 254, 289 – 92
trade, 360, 361, 362
traditionalism, 2, 19 – 23, 30, 32, 244, 265
calling and, 30 – 31, 32
capitalist spirit vs., xvi–xvii, 15 – 16
development of capitalist spirit from, 21 – 23
female workers and, 18
ideal type of, xvii
Lutheran workers and, 65
trust, 74
Tunker sect, 102
Tuskegee, AL, xv
uniformity of lifestyle, 114
unio mystica, 78, 88, 154
see also mysticism
United States, see America
unworldliness (Weltfremdheit), 4 – 6
usury (taking of interest), 30, 46, 183, 261, 334, 352 – 53
vanity, 196
vocation, see calling
wages, productivity and, xvi–xvii, 15 – 17, 119
war, 361, 362
wealth, 106, 116 – 17, 121, 200, 255
acquisition of, see acquisition of wealth
distribution of, and predestination, 200
greed and, 14, 116, 255, 256, 265, 359
idolatrous tendencies and, 293
inherited, 187, 196
permissible uses of, 116
possessions, 106, 108, 115, 116, 121, 195, 196, 255, 312
profits, 19, 110 – 11, 116 – 17, 119, 256, 296, 359
secularizing influence of, 118
withdrawal from business life after acquiring, 175
Westminster Assembly, 70, 72, 105, 138
Westminster Confession, 70 – 71
women, 182, 309
as workers, 18
work, 107 – 8
asceticism and, 107, 120
division of labor in, 108 – 9
early retirement and, 183
ethical significance of, xvii, xviii
free labor, 362, 363, 364
and pleasure in craftsmanship, 200
as protection against temptation, 107
as purpose of life, 107
rationalization and, 26 – 27
separation of residence from place of, 195, 362 – 63
traditional attitudes toward, xvi–xvii; see also traditionalism
value of, xvi, xvii, xviii
see also calling
workers, 15, 94, 119
change of location and, 46 – 47
conformity and, 13
female, 18
Lutheran, 65
Methodist, persecution of, 18 – 19
productivity of, xvi–xvii
skilled, proportion of Catholics to Protestants as, 3 – 4
wages and productivity of, xvi–xvii, 15 – 17, 119
works, see good works
Works of the Puritan Divines (Adams), 175
World Congress of Arts and Science (1904), xiii–xiv
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