The idea that Protestants work harder and build stronger economies than Catholics is more than 100 years old. First proposed by German sociologist Max Weber, the "Protestant work ethic" has been ...

Rachael Kohn: Who invented capitalism and what does it owe to religion? Hello, I'm Rachael Kohn, and that's the question for today's Ark on ABC Radio National. A hundred years ago, a German scholar in ...

Written in 1905, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber argues that certain aspects of Protestantism, particularly the belief in a calling and predestination, fostered a ...

How Christian discipleship affects household income. Before World War I, German sociologist Max Weber famously linked the work ethic of Protestant Christians to the economic development of Europe. The ...

Not long ago, a relative of mine told me he had been working so hard in the yard that he’d “literally thrown up”. He didn’t offer this as a health update, or to warn me about overexertion. It was, ...

People worked hard long before there was a thing called the “work ethic,” much less a “Protestant work ethic.” The phrase itself emerged early in the twentieth century and has since congealed into a ...