This book addresses from a socio-scientific standpoint the interaction of religions and forms of contemporary capitalism. Contributors explore a wide range of interactions between economic systems and their socio-cultural contexts.

Introduction, Richard H. Roberts; Part 1 Revising The Classics; Chapter 1 Max Weber, Capitalism and the Religion of India, David N. Gellner; Chapter 2 Islam and Capitalism, William H. Swatos Jr; Chapter 3 Religion, Ethics and Economic Interaction in Japan, Helmut Loiskandl; Chapter 4 Dynamic Complementarity, James H. Grayson; Chapter 5 Judaism and Capitalism, Paul Morris; Chapter 6 Religion and the Transition to a ‘New World Order’?, Peter Beyer; Part 2 The New Handmaid? Religion and the Empowerment of Capitalism; Chapter 7 Quasi-Religious Corporations, David G. Bromley; Chapter 8 America Loves Sweden, Simon M. Coleman; Chapter 9 Power and Empowerment, Richard H. Roberts; Chapter 10 The Gospel of Prosperity in West Africa, Rosalind I.J. Hackett; Chapter 11 Evangelical Religion and Capitalist Society in Chile, David Martin; Part 3 Religion and Modernity/Post-modernity—Capitalism and Cultures East and West; Chapter 12 Modernity or Pseudo-modernity? Secularization or Pseudo-secularization?, Ivan Varga; Chapter 13 Greek Orthodoxy and Modern Socio-economic Change, Nikos Kokosalakis; Chapter 14 Religion and the Demise of Socialism in Israeli Society, Stephen Sharot; Chapter 15 Religion and Capitalism in Australia, Alan W. Black; Chapter 16 Religion, Politics and Development in Malaysia, Anne Eyre; Chapter 17 The Post-deng Era and the Future of Religion in China, Julian F. Pas;

`Richard Roberts has assembled strong collection of high quality essays ... The present edition serves as an exempler of interdisciplinary analysis of religions in socio-cultural context. Anthropology, religious studies and sociology are brought together without retentivenss wih regard to subject boundries to engage constructively clearly with a single, if widely-ramifying poblemaic, the religion/capitalism matrix, partiularly in its state of relative flux in the condition of late modernity.' - Jrl of Contemporary Review