Our music is taken from the song “Pourquoi je pas?”, and is kindly provided by Chocolat Billy, a band based in Bordeaux, France. To find out more about them, visit their pages on Bandcamp, Facebook and the Free Music Archive.
Dennis Hiebert is professor of sociology at Providence, a Christian university located near Winnipeg in the Canadian province of Manitoba.
His teaching covers all aspects of sociology, from micro-level interpersonal relations to macro-level global relations, with the aim of demonstrating how cultural and social factors beyond psychology and biology shape who we are.
Dennis’s also serves as the editor of the Journal of Sociology and Christianity, and will edit the forthcoming Routledge International Handbook of Sociology and Christianity.
Further details:
Providence biography
EPISODE RESOURCES
Gods and Profits: How capitalism and Christianity aligned in modern America
by Elizabeth Bruenig
The New Republic
With New Rules, Pope Aims to Reform Scandal-Ridden Vatican Bank
by Maya Perry
Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
By Max Weber
Oxford University Press
Summary of The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Wikipedia
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
By Adam Smith
Project Gutenberg
Summary of An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Wikipedia
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
by Adam Smith
Project Gutenberg
Summary of The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Wikipedia
The Market as God
by Harvey Cox
Harvard University Press
The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity
by Eugene McCarraher
Harvard University Press
The Altars Where We Worship: The Religious Significance of Popular Culture
by Juan M. Floyd-Thomas, Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas and Mark G. Toulouse
Westminster John Knox Press
Theocapitalism and the Quest for Prosperity
by Michael DeFazio
Blog post
by David Harvey
Oxford University Press
The Economy of Desire Christianity and Capitalism in a Postmodern World
by Daniel M. Bell Jr.
Baker Publishing Group
Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism
Kathryn Tanner
Yale University Press
Georg Simmel’s Philosophy of Money: An Introduction
by David Auerbach
Waggish
Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity
by Charles Taylor
Harvard University Press
Theses on the critique of “religion”
Craig Martin
Critical Research on Religion, Volume 3, Issue 3
Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism, 5th Edition
by Richard H. Robbins and Rachel A. Dowty
Pearson
The Prophets
by Abraham J. Heschel
Harper Collins
The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis (PDF)
by Lynn White
Science
How ‘Degrowth’ Pushes Climate and Well-Being Over GDP
by Akshat Rathi
Bloomberg
Frontier Technology Quarterly: Does the sharing economy share or concentrate?
United Nations
A critical review of voluntary simplicity: Definitional inconsistencies, movement identity and direction for future research
by Lucas Aidar & Peter Daniels
The Social Science Journal
Transition Towns
Wikipedia
MORE BY DENNIS HIEBERT
Rationality, Humility, and Spirituality in Christian Life
Wipf & Stock
Prophets and Products: The Current Cultural Context of Christian Sociology, Journal of Sociology and Christianity, Volume 10, Issue 1
Why “all lives matter” (dis)misses the point
Winnipeg Free Press
Problems of Personhood in Human Beings, Artificial Intelligence, and God, Journal of Sociology and Christianity, Volume 9, Issue 2
Clothing Christian Convictions in Intellectual Humility, Cultural Encounters: A Journal for the Theology of Culture, Volume 15, Issue 1.
The Mechanisms and Morality of Capitalism: A Brief Christian Critique, Journal of Sociology and Christianity, Volume 9, Issue 1
A Call for Civility in Public Dialogue, Journal of Sociology and Christianity, Volume 8, Issue 2
The Massive Subjective Turn: Sociological Perspectives of Spirituality, Journal of Sociology and Christianity, Volume 8, Issue 2
Climate Change and Christian Anthropocentrism, Journal of Sociology and Christianity, Volume 7, Number 2