面白そうな文献
紀伊国屋書店の洋書カタログを見ていたら、面白そうな本が色々とありました。読む暇はないわけですが、メモしておきます。
- Templin, J. Alton, Pre-Reformation Religious Dissent in the Netherlands, 1518-1530, 2006
- King, Margaret (ed.), Other Voices: Women and Religion in early modern Europe, 2006
- Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe, 1-4. Bd.
- MacNamara, Patrick (ed.), Where God and Science meet: How brain and evolutionary studies alter our understanding of religion, 2006. 1-3. Bd.
極東書店のカタログより。
- Swatos, William h., Jr. / Kaelber, L. (eds.), The Protestant Ethic Turns 100: Essays on the Centenary of the Weber Thesis, 2005
- Jordan, Erin L., Women, Power, and Religious Patronage in the Middle Ages. (The New Middle Ages), 2005
Colin Loader氏によるウェーバーの『プロ倫』１００周年本の書評より。
Philip S. Gorski's excellent essay provides a new take on an old issue, the historical accuracy of Weber's thesis. Forsaking the question of the "great divergence" between Europe and Asia for the "little divergence" between the North Atlantic and continental Europe in the early modern period, he finds that Reformed Protestantism contributed mightily, but not by creating a new capitalist "spirit" as Weber claimed. Rather it gave rise to four important forces: 1) the migration of Protestants, redistributing human capital to the advantage of the countries that received them; 2) the decrease in the number of religious holidays in Protestant countries, increasing the supply of labor; 3) the dissolution of monastic properties, changing the structure of landholding and providing a Keynesian injection of capital into the economy via state spending; 4) Protestant insurgencies, fostering less predatory and more predictable forms of government. Like Weber he argues that this process was not a simple causal one but was complex and contingent.
