The Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism : with other writings on the rise of the West / Max Weber ; translated and introduced by Stephen Kalberg.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 553-555) and indexes.

General introduction: Max Weber and the modern West1: Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism Introduction to the translation / Stephen Kalberg Introduction to The Protestant Ethic / Stephen Kalberg Part 1: Problem Chapter 1: Religious affiliation and social stratification Chapter 2: Spirit of capitalism Chapter 3: Luther's conception of the calling Task of the investigation Part 2: Vocational Ethic Of Ascetic Protestantism Chapter 4: Religious foundations of this-worldly asceticism A: Calvinism B: Pietism C: Methodism D: Baptizing sects and churches Chapter 5: Asceticism and the spirit of capitalism 2: Protestant sects in America and the uniqueness of western rationalism Introduction / Stephen Kalberg 1: Protestant sects and the spirit of capitalism 2: "Churches" and "sects" in North America: an ecclesiastical sociopolitical sketch
3: Prefatory remarks to collected essays in the sociology of religion (1920)
3: Demarcating the uniqueness of the West through comparisons: magic and the economic ethics of the world religions Introduction / Stephen Kalberg 1: Main concepts: economic ethics, social carriers, scared law, and the ethic of conviction 2: India: Hinduism and Buddhis 3: China: Confucianism 4: Confucianism and Puritanism 5: Judaism 6: Middle East: Islam 7: West: ancient Christianity and Catholicism. 4: Rise of modern capitalism: the western rationalism and modern western rationalism deep contexts Introduction / Stephen Kalberg 1: Comparative cases: China and India 2: Ancient and medieval cities in the West: fraternization, incorporation, and the dissolution of clan ties 3: Putting-out system, modes of financing, mercantilism, and the factory 4: Definition of modern capitalism, and the relationship of feudalism and partriomonialism to capitalism 5: West's cross-state competition versus hierocracy and caesaropapism 6: Jurdical formalism and the rational state 7: Ethos and education under feudalism and partiomonialism, clerical education, and the Puritans', mass intellectualism 8: Sect, democracy, tolerance, freedom of conscience, and a cosmos of abstract norms 9: Bureaucratization, democracy, and modern capitalism 10: Impersonality of the market and discipline in the modern capitalist factory Appendix 1: Weber's summary statements on "The Protestant ethic thesis" A: Development of the capitalist frame of mind (1919-1920)