03520oam 2200649 450 991079445150332120220405010218.01-5036-1483-210.1515/9781503614833(CKB)4100000011703616(MiAaPQ)EBC6449272(DE-B1597)576710(OCoLC)1243310617(DE-B1597)9781503614833(PPN)263622339(EXLCZ)99410000001170361620210612d2021 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe spirit of french capitalism economic theology in the age of enlightenment /Charly ColemanStanford, California :Stanford University Press,[2021]©20211 online resource (393 pages) illustrationsCurrencies: New Thinking for Financial Times1-5036-0843-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Figures --Acknowledgments --INTRODUCTION --CHAPTER 1 The Economy of the Mysteries --CHAPTER 2 Perpetual Penance and Frequent Communion --CHAPTER 3 The Spirit of Speculation --CHAPTER 4 Usury Redeemed --CHAPTER 5 The Cult of Consumption --CHAPTER 6 Luxury and the Origins of the Fetish --EPILOGUE Encounters with Economic Theology --Notes --Bibliography --IndexHow did the economy become bound up with faith in infinite wealth creation and obsessive consumption? Drawing on the economic writings of eighteenth-century French theologians, historian Charly Coleman uncovers the surprising influence of the Catholic Church on the development of capitalism. Even during the Enlightenment, a sense of the miraculous did not wither under the cold light of calculation. Scarcity, long regarded as the inescapable fate of a fallen world, gradually gave way to a new belief in heavenly as well as worldly affluence. Animating this spiritual imperative of the French economy was a distinctly Catholic ethic that-in contrast to Weber's famous "Protestant ethic"-privileged the marvelous over the mundane, consumption over production, and the pleasures of enjoyment over the rigors of delayed gratification. By viewing money, luxury, and debt through the lens of sacramental theory, Coleman demonstrates that the modern economy casts far beyond rational action and disenchanted designs, and in ways that we have yet to apprehend fully.CapitalismHistoryFrance18th centuryEconomicsReligious aspectsCatholic ChurchCapitalismReligious aspectsCatholic ChurchFranceChurch history18th centuryCatholic Ethic.Commodity fetishism.Debt.Economic theology.Eighteenth Century.Enlightenment.Luxury.Money.political economy.the Eucharist.CapitalismHistoryEconomicsReligious aspectsCatholic Church.CapitalismReligious aspectsCatholic Church.261.8508828244Coleman Charly1509239MiAaPQMiAaPQUtOrBLWBOOK9910794451503321The spirit of french capitalism3740969UNINA