Religious motivations for work ethics. The american case
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2009
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Tytuł czasopisma
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1733-2680
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From Initial Remarks: "At first glance, everything is obvious. Work after all belongs to the specific forms
of human activity towards which no contemporary religion remains indifferent. Yet
the question begins to become complicated once the questions being asked are finetuned:
for example, 1) whether all religions have the same attitude to work, and,
if not, 2) whether their different understanding of work implies onto the mundane
plane an uneven development of a human civilisation, both in its material sense
and that of the realm of symbolic culture, and also 3) remains in direct connection
with the eschatological visions proper for the given religion (concerning e.g. the
dependence of the posthumous fate of the human on his or her behaviour in the
earthly life). Providing convincing answers to these seemingly simple questions
is not easy, especially in societies that in the successive phases of their historical
development have changed not only their ethnic and racial but also their denominational
mix, moving from stable, homogenous states to dynamic heterogeneous
structures. Undoubtedly, one such society is the totality of citizens of the United
States of America. Here is the simplest of all possible proofs."(...)
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Krakowskie Studia Międzynarodowe 2009, nr 2, s. 337-360.