Weber is perhaps best known for his thesis combining economic sociology and the sociology of religion, elaborated in his book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, in which he proposed that ascetic Protestantism was one of the major " elective affinities " associated with the rise in the Western world of market-driven capitalism and the rational-legal nation-state.

The 16th century saw the rise of Protestantism and an explosion of translations of the New ( and Old ) Testament into the vernacular.

" Cohen therefore considers it paradoxical " that the rise of early modern science was due at least in part to developments in Christian thought — in particular, to certain aspects of Protestantism " ( a thesis first developed as what is now sometimes called the Merton thesis ).

Despite the rise of Protestantism, it was home to several Catholic monasteries, including that of the Premonstratensians, which is still active.

Histories of Ireland began to stress the role of castles in the rise of Protestantism and " British values " in Ireland, although tourism remained limited.

The rise of Protestantism in the 16th century led to increasing disapproval of maypoles and other May Day practices from various Protestants who viewed them as idolatry and therefore immoral.

The rise of Protestantism, however, freed many European Christians from Rome's dictates against usury.

His fervent Protestantism, which alienated him in the latter part of his life from Cornelius, who was as decided a Catholic, is most strongly expressed in his “ Don Pedro de Arbuez, the Inquisitor ,” which, appearing at the time of the ecumenical council ( 1869-70 ), produced a great sensation, and gave rise to many controversies.

The rise of the sermon as a central act of Christian worship, especially in Protestantism, made the pew a standard item of church furniture.

This period also saw the rise of non-traditional churches and megachurches with conservative theologies and a growth in parachurch organizations while mainline Protestantism lost many members.

Spain's wars during that century became increasinly more to do with preserving the hegemonic power of the Habsburg alliance in Europe ; although it should be noted that the Habsburg alliance was successful in buttressing the Catholic Church against the rise of Protestantism.

Despite his conversion to Protestantism in 1912 and his strong identification with German culture, Klemperer's life started to worsen considerably after the Nazi rise to power in 1933.

Meanwhile, despite the cherished commitments to independence and freedom, Congregationalists moved increasingly in the direction of espousing the main aims of the ecumenical movement within American ( and world ) Protestantism, a movement gathering much energy from the rise of totalitarian regimes in Europe and a perceived decline in religious life among Americans during the first third of the 20th century.

A later work was " Islam and Capitalism " ( 1966 ), the title echoing to Max Weber's famous thesis regarding the development of Capitalism in Europe and the rise of Protestantism.

The use of the diagram declined in England with the rise of Protestantism, and from the 17th century to the early 19th century, it was mainly of interest to historians of heraldry ; but beginning in the 19th century it underwent a limited revival as an actively-used Christian symbol among English-speaking Christians, partly due to being included in books such as the Handbook of Christian Symbolism by W. J.

After that there was political turmoil in Transylvania, which the government of general Giorgio Basta's rise to power followed up with the persecution of Protestantism.

The rise of Protestantism, freed many European Christians from Rome's dictates against usury.

This led to his excommunication by the holy see and possibly precipitated his death, and his son Dom Dinis's premature rise to the throne at only 18 years old.

The rise of TCP / IP during the 1990s led to a re-implementation of most of these types of support on that protocol, and AppleTalk became unsupported as of the release of Mac OS X v10. 6 in 2009.

The rise of computer use is one of the reasons said to have led to a relative decline in board games.

Subsequent modifications of Watson's perspective and that of " classical conditioning " ( see under Ivan Pavlov ) led to the rise of operant conditioning or " radical behaviorism ," a theory advocated by B. F. Skinner, which took over the academic establishment up through the 1950s and was synonymous with " behaviorism " for many.

The combination of inflation and government-mandated price-fixing led to the rise of black markets in rice, beans, sugar, and flour, and a " disappearance " of such basic commodities from supermarket shelves.

This suppression and the success of independence movements in the former Spanish colonies on the North American mainland led to a rise of Cuban nationalism, and a number of independence conspiracies took place during the 1820s and 1830s, but all failed.

This gradual rise in the dominance of infantry led to the adoption of dismounted tactics.

The shift in power to the congregation led to the rise of the Congregational Churches.

The massive property boom and consequent rise in house prices has led to friction between the new arrivals and the old Docklands communities, who have complained of being squeezed out.

This led to the rise of mobsters such as the Purple Gang, who regularly traveled across the frozen river and used violence as a means to control the route known as the " Detroit-Windsor Funnel " — parodying the newly built tunnel.

The launching of Sputnik in 1957 at the height of the cold war gave rise to a number of intellectually competitive approaches to disciplinary knowledge, such as BSCS biology PSSC physics, led by university professors such as Jerome Bruner and Jerrold Zacharias.

The period after the American Occupation led to a rise in diversity in movie distribution thanks to the increased output and popularity of the film studios of Toho, Daiei, Shochiku, Nikkatsu, and Toei.

Decline in food production, growth of the population, and competition for resources among the great families all led to the gradual decline of Fujiwara power and gave rise to military disturbances in the mid-tenth and eleventh centuries.

The allegations such as " A recent phenomenon in India has been the rise of Hindu fundamentalism that has led to political mobilization against Muslims.

This led to the rise of a host of different political and economic groups in the country.

The loss of the dative led to a rise of prepositional indirect objects ( and the use of the genitive to directly mark these as well ).

Pope Boniface VIII his extraordinary shortness of stature led the pope to believe he was kneeling, and to ask him three times to rise, to the immense merriment of the cardinals ; and that he had a daughter, Novella, so accomplished in law as to be able to read her father's lectures in his absence, and so beautiful, that she had to read behind a curtain lest her face should distract the attention of the students.

European overseas expansion led to the rise of colonial empires, producing the Columbian Exchange.

Hard conditions imposed on Germany by the Treaty of Versailles and the Great Depression led to the rise of fascism in Germany as well as in Italy, Spain and other countries.

The rise of the irredentist totalitarian regime Nazi Germany led to a Second World War.

In the following decades, fear of communism and the Great Depression of 1929 – 1933 led to the rise of extreme nationalist governmentssometimes loosely grouped under the category of fascismin Italy ( 1922 ), Germany ( 1933 ), Spain ( after a civil war ending in 1939 ) and other countries such as Hungary ( 1944 ), Romania ( 1940 ) and Slovakia ( 1939 ).

His rise to power began in 608, when he and his father, Heraclius the Elder, the exarch of Africa, successfully led a revolt against the unpopular usurper Phocas.

This, along with the general public's increasing lack of familiarity of Greek mythology at the time led to the figure of Pan becoming generalised as a ' horned god ', and applying connotations to the character, such as benevolence that were not evident in the original Greek myths which in turn gave rise to the popular acceptance of Murray's hypothetical horned god of the witches.

This has led to the rise of political parties with agendas catering to one or a mix of these groups.

This plan led to an increasing GDP growth, lower inflation, and increased industrial / agricultural / commercial produce, exports and output, yet made the unemployment rate rise.