Liberal bourgeois Protestantism : the metaphysics of globalization

Liberal bourgeois Protestantism : the metaphysics of globalization / by Paul C. Mocombe.

This work analyzes the Protestant metaphysical origins and basis underlying the sociological process of globalization. Specifically, it outlines the different conceptions of globalization in the sociological literature, and then examines the nature of identity and identity politics in the age of glo...

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Main Author: Mocombe, Paul C.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.
Series:Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 41.
Subjects:
Globalization > Social aspects > Philosophy.
Cultural fusion > United States.
Capitalism > Social aspects.
Americanization.
African Americans > Cultural assimilation.
Protestant work ethic > United States.
Hegemony > Social aspects > United States.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Globalization.
African Americans > Cultural assimilation
Americanization
Capitalism > Social aspects
Cultural fusion
Protestant work ethic
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • Liberal Bourgeois Protestantism; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENT; CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION; The Globalizing or Westernizing Framework; Sociological Theorizing of the Global Framework; Focus of the Analysis; PART I: GLOBALIZATION, BOURGEOIS PROTESTANTISM AND AFRICANS IN AMERICA; CHAPTER TWO: GLOBALIZATION; Capitalist Hegemony; Protestant Turn; CHAPTER THREE: LIBERAL BOURGEOIS PROTESTANTISM; The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism; Hybridization; CHAPTER FOUR: THE HISTORICAL CONSTITUTION OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CONSCIOUSNESS IN GLOBALIZATION; The Hybridization of Black America.
  • African-Americans and the Protestant EthicA Color-Caste System; PART II: HYBRID IDENTITIES IN GLOBALIZATION; CHAPTER FIVE: THE HISTORICAL CONSTITUTION OF GRENADIAN CONSCIOUSNESS IN GLOBALIZATION; Resistance and Social Change; Grenada in the Global Economy; CHAPTER SIX: W.E.B. DU BOIS; Origins; Double Consciousness; Class Rational Social Structures; CHAPTER SEVEN: BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA; Origins; Race and Racial Identity; Protestantism of Obama; CHAPTER EIGHT: THE "OTHERS" IN A WORLD ECONOMY; The Other in the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
  • Hybrid Globalization under American HegemonyGlobalization and Modernity; Post-Colonial Hybrid; CHAPTER NINE: CONCLUSION: WHAT IS TO BE DONE?; REFERENCES; INDEX.

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