Book Review: Stephen Kalberg. 2016. Searching for the Spirit of American Democracy: Max Weber’s Analysis of a Unique Political Culture, Past, Present, and Future. Routledge. 176p. ISBN: 9781612054452

Abstract

This text reviews Stephen Kalberg’s Searching for the Spirit of American Democracy: Max Weber’s Analysis of a Unique Political Culture, Past, Present, and Future, focusing on the twofold analysis Weber offered regarding the American Protestantism. The key idea Kalberg supports is that the famous “Protestant Ethic” should be read together with Weber’s less known essay on “The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Capitalism.”