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Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism

Kathryn Tanner

Print publication date: 2019

Print ISBN-13: 9780300219036

Published to Yale Scholarship Online: September 2019

DOI: 10.12987/yale/9780300219036.001.0001

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Chained to the Past

Chained to the Past

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(p.34) 2 Chained to the Past
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Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism
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Kathryn Tanner

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Yale University Press
DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300219036.003.0002

This chapter considers the way in which persons, as both workers and debtors, are encouraged to relate to past decisions that constrain present action within finance-dominated capitalism. The presumed inevitability of this way of relating to the past is undercut by appealing to Christian forms of self-repudiation in conversion and to the ruptured narratives that go along with them.

Keywords:   Conversion, Christian narrative, Debt, Self-repudiation

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