ANT356H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Consumerism, Protestant Work Ethic, Emerging Markets
28 Feb 2014
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Readings this week: make reference to weberian capitalist principles, difference between capitalism and neoliberalism, privatization, individual responsibility, free market economy; more prominent in/important to neoliberalism, political ideology factors into economy more with neoliberalism. Islam as a religious tradition but also its relationship to modernity and capitalism; more of a social force today. Marxist ideologies might understand it; intersect and affect each other: what is the relationship between islam and modernity, something about islam not pushing industrial revolution in the middle east like. 288: charity and religion becoming institutionalized make it hard to acknowledge charitable/religious acts as purely selfless/not part of a system when they have become inherently systemic. Rudnyckyj: esq (emotional and spiritual quotient) training programs, enhancement of piety goes hand-in-hand with enhancement of productivity, both at individual and company level, esq testimony videos. People finding themselves through esq training o: spiritual economies, occult economies. Magical means for material ends (in the context of dramatic changes of neoliberalism)
