The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Weber, Max

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“…One recent volume devoted to this issue is Freschi and Maas (2017), which is dedicated to philosophical and hermeneutical issues rather than ritual ones. 4 Weber [1956] (Weber [1956(Weber [ ] 1965 foregrounds the antagonism between religion and magic, with the idea that religion rationalizes and therefore marginalizes magic, analogous in some ways to what we see in the development of tantric hermeneutics; see also (Weber [1930(Weber [ ] 2001. For a discussion of the subsequent scholarship on Weber's idea, and its application in venues other than religion, see (Sica 2000).…”

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Magicians, Sorcerers and Witches: Considering Pretantric, Non-sectarian Sources of Tantric Practices

Davidson

2017

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Most models on the origins of tantrism have been either inattentive to or dismissive of non-literate, non-sectarian ritual systems. Groups of magicians, sorcerers or witches operated in India since before the advent of tantrism and continued to perform ritual, entertainment and curative functions down to the present. There is no evidence that they were tantric in any significant way, and it is not clear that they were concerned with any of the liberation ideologies that are a hallmark of the sectarian systems, even while they had their own separate identities and specific divinities. This paper provides evidence for the durability of these systems and their continuation as sources for some of the ritual and nomenclature of the sectarian tantric traditions, including the predisposition to ritual creativity and bricolage.

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Magicians, Sorcerers and Witches: Considering Pretantric, Non-sectarian Sources of Tantric Practices

Davidson

2017

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“…As Keane notes, what was unique about the Protestant missional project of purification was its emphasis on linking ‘moral progress to practices of detachment from and reevaluation of materiality’—what Max Weber called ‘disenchantment’ (Keane 2007, 6; Weber 2008). Because of this, merely adopting new rites and practices that conformed to Protestant doctrines was not sufficient for conversion.…”

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It’s Not Business, It’s Personal

McClendon

2014

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Debate surrounding the United States Supreme Court's 2010 decision in Citizens United v. FEC is ostensibly about the legal rights of corporations. However, I argue that the debate about corporate personhood is infused with religious concerns, rooted in the Protestant Reformation, about the proper identification of agentive subjects and the consequences of misidentification for human personhood. Focusing on the language used by opponents and defenders in the popular media, I show how both sides are animated by Protestant notions of human agency and share similar anxieties about the threats to that agency posed by abstract corporate or governmental entities. Attending to this fundamentally religious dimension not only improves our understanding of the moral stakes in the debate over corporations’ legal rights but it also illuminates the implicit religious underpinnings of American political discourse.

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“…It is simply called the "invention of tradition". 36 When the past starts to construct and arrange by the imaginary and desirable model of the ruling elite, the tradition acquires the right characteristics of kitsch that in 33 humans awakens sentimentality, nostalgia and well-known penchant for pathos. Traditional kitsch is embedded in the political conservatism because tradition serves well to the politicians as a cover, pronunciation, demagogic means of justifying their authority by which they will confirm the alleged preservation of historical continuity and identity, the supposed national size, false consistency and quasi-patriotism.…”

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Conservative ideology and political kitsch

Božilović¹

2013

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Kitsch is a multifunctional phenomenon that the author of this article is trying to "pass on" from the field of aesthetic to ethical area. In that endeavor he develops theoretical assumption of Hermann Broch, at which the kitsch is intrinsic moral evil, and the producer (creator) of the kitsch is "low moral being" and "ethical outcast." This thesis is a key in consideration of the conservative ideology and political kitsch. Kitsch in politics is associated with the moral categories of truth and falsehood, in which the author of this article argues that kitsch is a deliberately designed and programmed lie. The political kitsch serves for manipulation of the masses and represents the basis of totalitarian consciousness, which is an introduction to the repression and crime.Conservative ideology is the basis from which grow a variety of kitsch creations and phenomena, among which the political kitsch dominates. The article, inspired by Andrew Heywood, analyzes the basic categories of conservatism: tradition, human imperfection, organic society, hierarchy and authority, and property, which provides a sense of confidence and conformist security. Each of them the author is putting under a magnifying glass with which he reveals the elements of manipulation with traditional patriotic feelings. From kitsch milieu it can not be excluded Serbian society in the past and present. In the scourge of traditionalism and conservatism, ethnocentrism and ethno-nationalism, xenophobia and kitsch patriotism are the main "fences in the mind" because of which Serbian 1 Full Professor of Sociology of Culture.

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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

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Magicians, Sorcerers and Witches: Considering Pretantric, Non-sectarian Sources of Tantric Practices

Magicians, Sorcerers and Witches: Considering Pretantric, Non-sectarian Sources of Tantric Practices

It’s Not Business, It’s Personal

Conservative ideology and political kitsch

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