Pietism is a movement that rose out of the Lutheran denomination in the 17th century and placed a much greater emphasis on personal piety and self-discipline.
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Pietism Term Timeline in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
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Part 1, Section 2: The “Spirit” of Capitalism
...that this mentality among women can be averted by a religious upbringing, particularly among the Pietist traditions. Female workers from such religious backgrounds tend to be better able to focus and...
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Part 2, Section 1: The Religious Foundations of Innerworldly Asceticism
Weber states that there are four primary sources of Protestant asceticism: Calvinism, Pietism, Methodism, and the Baptist sects. These denominations all link together in various ways and sometimes...
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The ascetic tradition of Pietism is usually based on the doctrine of predestination and thus closely resembles Calvinism. Where they...
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However, when Pietism does not lapse into monasticism and does not abandon the concept of predestination—as Lutheran Pietism...
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The German Pietist Zinzendorf added to the Protestant ascetic tradition by arguing for a life of labor in...
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Weber states that Methodism was established as the Anglo-American parallel to German Pietism. Like Pietism, breaking from Calvinism, Methodism places increasing emphasis on emotion, arguing that salvation should...
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Weber argues that Methodism, like Pietism, rests on weaker ethical foundations that allow for a less methodical and rational existence than...
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