Weber's Protestant ethic : origins, evidence, contexts / edited by Hartmut Lehmann and Guenther Roth.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The German theological sources and Protestant church politics / Friedrich Wilhelm Graf -- The thesis before Weber : an archaeology / Paul Münch -- Max Weber, Protestantism, and the debate around 1900 / Thomas Nipperdey -- Weber the would-be-Englishman : anglophilia and family history / Guenther Roth -- Weber's historical concept of national identity / Harry Liebersohn -- Nietzsche's monastery for freer spirits and Weber's sect / Hubert Treiber -- Weber's ascetic practices of the self / Harvey S. Goldman -- The Protestant ethic versus the "new ethic" / Klaus Lichtblau -- The rise of capitalism : Weber versus Sombart / Hartmut Lehmann -- The longevity of the thesis : a critique of the critics / Malcolm H. MacKinnon.

The use and abuse of textual data / David Zaret -- Biographical evidence of predestination, covenant, and special providence / Kaspar von Greyerz -- The thing that would not die : notes on refutation / Guy Oakes -- Historical viability, sociological significance, and personal judgment / Gianfranco Poggi -- The historiography of continental Calvinism / Philip Benedict -- The Protestant ethic and the reality of capitalism in colonial America / James A. Henretta -- The economic ethics of the world religions / Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer -- "Meet me in St. Louis" : Troeltsch and Weber in America / Hans Rollmann.