The Debt of the Living R. Shanmugasundaram

The Debt of the Living R. ShanmugasundaramAn analysis of theological and philosophical understandings of debt and its role in contemporary capitalism. Max Weber's account of the rise of capitalism focused on his concept of a Protestant ethic, valuing diligence in earning and saving money but restraint in spending it. However, such individual restraint is foreign to contemporary understandings of finance, which treat ever increasing consumption and debt as natural, almost essential, for

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This book is a unique study of Shi'a Islam as it lives in the minds and hearts of people in a Southwest Iranian village

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