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| Title: | The 'protestant ethic' of the Mourids of Senegal |
| Author: | Karp, Mark |
| Book title: | African dimensions: essays in honor of William O. Brown |
| Editor: | Karp, M. |
| Year: | 1975 |
| Pages: | 197-219 |
| Language: | English |
| City of publisher: | Brookline |
| Publisher: | Boston University, African Studies Center |
| Geographic term: | Senegal |
| Subjects: | ethics Muslim brotherhoods economics Mourides Sufism |
| Abstract: | In a paper relating the religiously motivated economic conduct of a Moslem brotherhood in Senegal to Max Weber's discussion of the role of the Protestant Reformation in Western economic development, the author tries to show how the analysis of African institutions can sometimes be used to reexamine interpretations of Western experience. Notes. |