Puritan America in the Modern World: Mission Impossible?

Reflecting the attention Parsons gave to religion in relation to modernity, this paper reinterprets the significance of the Puritan ethic in modern America. It is first argued that a crucial feature of the Reformation was the Calvinist collapse of the traditional separation of the religious and mund...

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Main Author: Tiryakian, Edward A. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: [publisher not identified] 1982
In: Sociological analysis
Year: 1982, Volume: 43, Issue: 4, Pages: 351-367
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