The Protestant Deformation in America

What we call “secularism” is profoundly shaped by faith traditions.

I’ve clumsily referenced Max Weber’s thinking about Protestantism’s relationship to capitalism several times here at Wisdom of Crowds, and I have several times been warned by readers about how much Weber got wrong in his famous treatise. Now, as I get deeper and deeper into my project of reading the Bible (in its King James translation, naturally) from …