• *New to this edition
• General Introduction: Max Weber and the Modern West, Stephen Kalberg
• I. THE PROTESTANT ETHIC AND THE SPIRIT OF CAPITALISM
• Introduction to the Translation, Stephen Kalberg
• Introduction to The Protestant Ethic, Stephen Kalberg
• Part I: The Problem
• Chapter 1: Religious Affiliation and Social Stratification
• Chapter 2: The Spirit of Capitalism
• Chapter 3: Luther's Conception of the Calling
• Part II: The Vocational Ethic of Ascetic Protestantism
• Chapter 4: The Religious Foundations of This-Worldly Asceticism
• Chapter 5: Asceticism and the Spirit of Capitalism
• *II. THE PROTESTANT SECTS IN AMERICA AND THE UNIQUENESS OF WESTERN RATIONALISM
• Introduction, Stephen Kalberg
• I. "The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Capitalism"
• II. "'Churches' and 'Sects' in North America: An Ecclesiastical Sociopolitical Sketch"
• III. "Prefatory Remarks" to Collected Essays in the Sociology of Religion (1920)
• *III. DEMARCATING THE UNIQUENESS OF THE WEST THROUGH COMPARISONS: MAGIC AND THE ECONOMIC ETHICS OF THE WORLD RELIGIONS
• Introduction, Stephen Kalberg
• I. Main Concepts: Economic Ethics, the Influence of Social Carriers, and from Sacred Law to the Ethic of Conviction
• II. India: Hinduism and Buddhism
• III. China: Confucianism
• IV. Confucianism and Puritanism
• V. Judaism
• VI. The Middle East: Islam
• VII. The West: Ancient Christianity and Catholicism
• *IV. THE RISE OF MODERN CAPITALISM: THE WESTERN RATIONALISM AND MODERN WESTERN RATIONALISM DEEP CONTEXTS
• Introduction, Stephen Kalberg
• I. Comparative Cases: China and India
• II. The Ancient and Medieval Cities in the West: Fraternization, Incorporation, and the Dissolution of Clan Ties
• III. The Putting-Out System, Modes of Financing, Mercantilism, and the Factory
• IV. The Definition of Modern Capitalism, and the Relationship of Feudalism and Patrimonialism to Capitalism
• V. The West's Cross-State Competition vs. Hierocracy and Caesaropapism
• VI. Juridical Formalism and the Rational State
• VII. Ethos and Education under Feudalism and Patrimonialism, Clerical Education, and the Puritans' Mass Intellectualism
• VIII. The Sect, Democracy, Tolerance, Freedom of Conscience, and a Cosmos of Abstract Norms
• IX. Bureaucratization, Democracy, and Modern Capitalism
• X. The Impersonality of the Market and Discipline in the Modern Capitalist Factory
• Appendix I: Weber's Summary Statements on "The Protestant Ethic Thesis"
• A. The Development of the Capitalist Frame of Mind (1919-1920)
• B. "A 'Final Rebuttal' to a Critic of 'Spirit of Capitalism'" (1910)
• Appendix II: Suggested Further Reading
• A. The Protestant Ethic Thesis and the Protestant Ethic Debate
• B. Max Weber: Life and Work
• Notes for The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
• Literature Cited
• A. Writings of Max Weber
• B. Secondary Literature
• Acknowledgments
• *A Chronology of Max Weber's Life
• *Glossary
• Name Index
• Subject Index