This second version is clearly a secularised version of the Protestant history of the Reformation, and makes very little sense as a general theory.
"He believes in a kind of Islamic version of the Protestant work ethic, where you work hard for the benefit of the country because it is the good and right thing to do according to Islam," Heper said.
Forced out of New York by an earlier version of that fierce Protestant hostility, Smith and his followers began their years of wandering.
Indeed, their insistent calls for self-discipline and education, striving and victory prompt some people to say Pentecostalism should be encouraged in Africa as the new version of Max Weber's Protestant work ethic.
During the 1840s, students in Philadelphia schools began the day with reading the Protestant version of the Bible.
In Boston, for example, school officials severely beat a young Catholic boy who refused to recite the Protestant version of the Ten Commandments in 1859.
With its wryly absurdist, self-absorbed but self-deprecating humor, the film is like a Southern Protestant, nonfiction version of a Woody Allen comedy.
In my piece, I refer to Landes and his followers as the new Weberians, because their argument is an inverted version of Weber's thesis about the protestant work ethic.
It has not only been ranked with Shakespeare's works as the greatest masterpiece of literature in the English language but also was the standard version of the Bible read by most Protestant Christians for four hundred years, until modern revisions were produced in the 20th century.
