Christianity and Capitalism

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This paper attempts to demonstrate the ways that Christianity and Capitalism seek or reject common goals needed to develop capitalism. The paper also discusses the idea of Capitalism as a faith in and of itself. The author of the paper then makes the argument that collectivism/socialism create systems that do not meet the needs of all the people, and also frequently rejects religion out of hand, creating a situation where if needs are not being met no one has any incentive to correct it with charitable works.

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"The sheer number of works that expand on and discuss capitalism, as it exists today and as it has evolved though the past, demonstrate a development that could be argued as the development of capitalism as its own brand of religion, rather than purely an economic form. It would seem that the only thing lacking it is a collective place of worship, though there are examples of that very thing in international conferences that further globalization, such as the World Bank and a growing number of Free Trade movements that espouse the virtues of capitalism to thousands of parishioners from all over the world."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Bandow, Doug. "Capitalism and Christianity: The Uneasy Partnership?." International Journal on World Peace 19.3 (2002): 39.
• Beyer, Peter. "6 Religion and the Transition to a 'new World Order'?." Religion and the Transformations of Capitalism: Comparative Approaches. Ed. Richard H. Roberts. New York: Routledge, 1995. 121-132.
• Carnegie A. (1889) "The Gospel of Wealth" in Modern History Sourcebook.
• Chalcraft, David J., and Austin Harrington, eds. The Protestant Ethic Debate : Max Weber's Replies to His Critics, 1907-1910 /. Liverpool, England: Liverpool University Press, 2001.
• Coleman, Simon. The Globalisation of Charismatic Christianity: Spreading the Gospel of Prosperity. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

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