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CONTENTS

PAGE
Translator's Preface
ix
Foreword
1
Author's Introduction
13

PART I
THE PROBLEM

CHAPTER
I.
Religious Affiliation and Social Stratification
35
II.
The Spirit of Capitalism
47
III.
Luther's Conception of the Calling. Task of the Investigation
79

PART II
THE PRACTICAL ETHICS OF THE ASCETIC BRANCHES OF PROTESTANTISM

IV.
The Religious Foundations of Worldly Asceticism
95
A. Calvinism
98
B. Pietism
128
C. Methodism
139
D. The Baptist Sects
144
V.
Asceticism and the Spirit of Capitalism
155
Notes
185
Index
285
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