Water, Christianity and the Rise of Capitalism - Couverture rigide

Oestigaard, Terje

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1780760663 ISBN 13 : 9781780760667

Editeur : I.B. Tauris, 2013

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

The Christian religion is deeply imbued with the imagery of water, and water plays a central role in its religious practices, not least in baptism. Yet the wider role of water in Christianity has been little explored. In this pioneering book, Terje Oestigaard uses the dramatic changes that took place in perceptions of water during the Reformation to reveal the importance that water played in structuring society and religion in the post-Reformation period. He concludes by examining, and challenging, the widely accepted view that the capitalist spirit of enterprise - so important to the later success of the Industrial Revolution - came about when magic and superstition were eliminated from religion by the Reformation.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Terje Oestigaard is Research Fellow with the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden. He was previously Research Fellow at the Centre for Development Studies, University of Bergen, and the Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Oslo. He is co-editor (with Terje Tvedt) of A History of Water, Series I, Volume 3 : The World of Water and of A History of Water Series II, Volume 1: Ideas of Water from Ancient Societies to the Modern World.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: I.B. Tauris
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1780760663
• ISBN 13: 9781780760667
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224