SOC201H1 Lecture : SOC201H1-Nov 28, Week 11
Document Summary
Max weber: the protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism: christian europe. 2)martin luther and the protestant reformation it becomes clear the power will not be blindly accepted. Contested by dissidence but they nonetheless see themselves as christians. Major and minor sins that can be cleansed/confessed in church. Bumped into dominican selling papal indulgences (basically you can pay off your sins), this offended him greatly, we can call this a trigger for his famous acts. Posted offending theses on the door of a church. He was not an anti-christian he just didn"t think that it wasn"t the best representation. In other words, *for luther; salvation was possible outside. He was expelled from the church in 1520. The germany of his day was highly decentralized there were wars in german over who was right. Many people point the finger at protestantism to account for individualism of western culture, in a way they are right because.
