Re: [Pen-l] Max Weber, economist

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

Of course, the spread of commerce and capitalism encourages mercantile
and narrowly "rational" attitudes, which in turn encourages
Protestantism. In my visits to (and studies of) Latin America, I've
noticed that the people more likely to dump Catholicism and to take up
Protestantism were merchants and people who thought that they could
"make it" in market activity.  Those who did well in, and liked, more
traditional and non-market ways of life (which were much more oriented
toward the community) were more likely to cling to Catholicism.

(As I understand it, the neoliberal policy revolution (imposed by
Pinochet, the IMF, etc.) has encouraged the rise of fundamentalist
Protestantism in Latin America and has caused a crisis for the
Catholic church.)
-- 
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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