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Buddhism and This-worldly Activity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

S. J. Tambiah
S. J. Tambiah
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Let me say at the outset that although I am an admirer of Weber, yet in my view the relation between kinds of religious ethic and economic (and political) activity is more open than Weber made it out to be. It is also my view that it is time we went beyond Weber because we have exhausted his ideas, and because we now have more and better evidence than he had.

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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , January 1973 , pp. 1 - 20
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1973

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