CLASSICAL AND MODERN SOCIOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RELIGION AND ECONOMICS

Classical and modern sociological implications of relations between religion and economics are discussed in the present article. From the classics of sociology, concepts of M. Weber, K. Marx and W. Sombart are analyzed, and the modern sociology is represented with considerations of J. Baudrillard, R. Bellah, G. Lenski and L. Harrison. Special attention is paid to the problem of relations between Orthodox Christianity and economics (Sergei Bulgakov). Authors of the article do not share the opinion that this problem is provoked by the non-existence of a corresponding social concept in Orthodox Christianity. We believe that religious faith has nothing in common with the lack of social and economic concepts.