The Shopkeeper's Millenium

The Shopkeeper's Millenium whereas analysis traditional Marxist analysis simplifies the class and modern economists often uses an abstraction, a category of Johnson's "resolution analysis of the experiences and relationships of real economic groups" (Johnson, p. 150). The author breaks earlier historians, claiming that turns into a revival enjoyed greater stability than non-believers. According to Johnson, many previous historians have argued that normless, transient individuals are likely to join the church in the revival (Johnson, p. 33)

In addition, working in the tradition of labor historians, Johnson explains the revival of the ideas gleaned by careful study Durkheimians. The author bases his concept of religion and the revival of the original sociological theories of Emile Durkheim and the interpretations of Thomas Luckman and Guy E. Swanson (pp. 163-164). Johnson believes his theory is particularly useful because Durkheimians agree with many historians of rebirth; there is a close connection between religious faith and social work (p. 10). They can measure the influence of religion on the basis of economic and social analysis. Johnson studied as resurgence associated with the exchange rates of different economic classes, professional status of converts, reform movements and political campaigns.

The author's multifaceted analysis corresponds to Christopher Clark's approach in his book, The Roots of Rural Capitalism. Clark uses the new social history and economic analysis to study the transformation of Western Massachusetts from the household for an incipient industrial capitalism

On the other hand, Clark barely mentions religion, while Johnson, the study of religious phenomena using the tools of social history and economics. Johnson apparently did not follow the interpretation of Winifred Rothenberg. Whereas, Rothenberg argues that the colonial and early national New England farmers to behave as capitalists, the author argues that capitalism gradually in Rochester. In addition, Johnson did not argue that the economy affects society ...