„Kredit bei aller Welt"

Did Protestant communities really have ‘credit everywhere’, as Max Weber observed? This study addresses this perspective for a possible explanation of the much-discussed connection between religion and economic success, using the example of the Moravian Church. This Protestant group secured its financing through profits from an extensive conglomerate of industrial, trade and banking companies, which this book is the first to present comprehensively. The book’s theoretical and methodological interdisciplinary analysis of corporate financing with regard to possible competitive advantages leads to the general question of the legitimacy of church entrepreneurship in the first half of the 20th century.