Max Weber's Economic ethos of the world religions an analysis

This book brings together for the first time in English internationally-recognized specialists who seek to identify what is 'living' and what is 'dead' in the great German social scientist Max Weber's analyses of China, India and Ancient Israel found in his massive, unfinish...

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Other Authors: Ertman, Thomas (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2017
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