Contents
Acknowledgements ......................................................................................... ix
Introduction: Religion, Civil Society, and the Challenge of
Global Justice  ............................................................................................... 1
Part I Class and the Protestant Ethic ..................................................... 27
1. Religion and the Problem of the “Social” .................................... 29
2. Class and Economic Interaction: Historical Materialism
as a Theory of Liberal Modernity .................................................. 55
3. Legitimation versus Theodicy: Weber’s Comparative
Religion .................................................................................................. 77
Part II The Confucian Turn ....................................................................... 95
4. Hegemony and Democracy ............................................................. 97
5. Class Consciousness or Ethical Hegemony? .............................. 121
6. The Confucian Turn: New Democracy and Ethical
Hegemony ............................................................................................. 157
Part III Confucian Marxism and the Protestant Social  .................... 191
7. Communal Cults and World Religions ........................................ 193
8. God’s Justice on Earth: Sittlichkeit versus the Ethical State  .... 215
9. Public Hegemony and Sectlike Society (Part 1) ....................... 249
10. Public Hegemony and Sectlike Society (Part 2) ....................... 283
Bibliography  ...................................................................................................... 313
Index .................................................................................................................... 331