Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction Religion, Civil Society, and the Challenge of Global Justice -- Part One Class and the Protestant Ethic -- Chapter One Religion and the Problem of the "Social" -- Chapter Two Class and Economic Interaction: Historical Materialism as a Theory of Liberal Modernity -- Chapter Three Legitimation versus Theodicy: Weber's Comparative Religion -- Part Two The Confucian Turn -- Chapter Four Hegemony and Democracy -- Chapter Five Class Consciousness or Ethical Hegemony? -- Chapter Six The Confucian Turn: New Democracy and Ethical Hegemony -- Part Three Confucian Marxism and the Protestant Social -- Chapter Seven Communal Cults and World Religions -- Chapter Eight God's Justice on Earth: Sittlichkeit versus the Ethical State -- Chapter Nine Public Hegemony and Sectlike Society (Part 1) -- Chapter Ten Public Hegemony and Sectlike Society (Part 2) -- Bibliography -- Index.