ESCP Europe

This book presents a study of the religion and civilization of India. The author explains why some countries had failed to display the full consequences of these rationalizing tendencies which, to the author's mind had so powerful an affinity with the scientific technical transformation of the West. He isolated religious institutions and the key social strata which mediate them to wider society as crucial for the original formation of social-psychological orientations to the pratical concerns of life and, hence, for receptivity of resistance to industrialization.