Word: mammon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Worshipping Mammon. . . Just published is a book that calls them all out of tune. Protestantism and capitalism are not interdependent, writes Swedish Economic Historian Kurt Samuelsson in Religion and Economic Action (Basic Books...
...industrialists and financiers in the 19th and early 20th centuries were Calvinists or Protestant sectarians, and it is "striking" how many of the clergymen in industrial centers were eulogizers of laisses-faire capitalism. But, he writes, "it was not the worship of God that led to the worship of Mammon. It was rather that it was necessary to demonstrate that devotion to wealth was not necessarily an impediment to true piety-and the need to assert it was all the greater because so many of the Puritan fathers had so intensely feared the harmfulness of riches." When old-style "robber...