Peter L. Berger & Gordon Redding 
The Hidden Form of Capital [PDF ebook] 
Spiritual Influences in Societal Progress

Contributors; Preface; Introduction: Spiritual, Social, Human, and Financial Capital; Do Some Religions Do Better than Others?; Spiritual Capital and Economic Development: An Overview; The Possibilities and Limitations of Spiritual Capital in Chinese Societies; How Evangelicanism — Including Pentecostalism — Helps the Poor: The Role of Spiritual Capital; Flying under South Africa’s Radar: The Growth and Impact of Pentecostals in a Developing Country; Importing Spiritual Capital: East-West Encounters and Capitalist Cultures in Eastern Europe After 1989; Orthodox Spiritual Capital and Russian Reform; Islam and Spiritual Capital: An Indonesian Case Study; Separating Religious Content from Religious Practice: Loose and Tight Institutions and their Relevance in Economic Evolution

Peter L. Berger has been Director of the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs at Boston University for the past twenty years, and has had a formative influence on both the study of sociology and its application to religion.
Gordon Redding is a specialist on the comparison of alternative systems of capitalism and their societal roots; he has spent 24 years at the University of Hong Kong, and now continuing to research on Asia at INSEAD.