Religion of money

The author of the proposed book for the first time over a hundred years since the publication of the works of German sociologists Max Weber (Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism, 1905) and the Werner of the Zombaret (Jews and Economic Life, 1912) is returned to the fundamental fundamental understanding the religious and spiritual roots of modern capitalism. The author critical analysis of the work of these sociologists, separates the “grain” from the “chases” in their concepts, reveals new phenomena in capitalism due to spiritual transformations of man and society in the XX - early XXI centuries. The work puts forward a fundamental thesis that today all the main world religions are experiencing the process of transformation into a single world religion, which the author conditionally calls the “religion of money”. Such a “diagnosis” is extremely important so that humanity realizes the deep causes of crises and cataclysms impending it and consciously begin to dissociate from the “religion of money”. In the final part of the work in a compressed form, the Christian (Orthodox) alternative to capitalism is presented