Religious Belief and Economic Behaviour: Ancient Israel, Classical Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, and Contemporary Ireland and Africa - South Florida-Rochester-St. Louis Studies in Religion and the Social Order

Records the principle papers and responses of a conference presented at the U. of South Florida in February 1999. The ten papers, authored by an interdisciplinary group of scholars, treat (many from a Weberian perspective) such topics as how new religious movements treat wealth, religious beliefs in contemporary Africa, the uses of the words rich'