Papers of a conference held under title "Protestant Ethics and the Modern Welfare State: Late Effects of the Reformation" held April 2014 in Berlin, Germany, sponsored by Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland, Sozialwissenschaftliches Institut; Universität Heidelberg, Diakoniewissenschaftliches Institut; and Evangelische Akademie Berlin.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Gerhard Wegner -- Prelude: Gift, market, and social justice / Marcel Hénaff -- Christianity and the welfare state. Christianity and the welfare state / Franz-Xaver Kaufmann -- The welfare state and the religious denominations in Germany / Karl Gabriel, Hans-Richard Reuter -- The cultural construction of Norden / Bo Stråth -- What does it mean to live in a one-norm society? The historical legacy of the symbiosis between church and state in the Nordic countries / Henrik Stenius -- The long shadow of the Reformation: the welfare state and the church/state conflict in Europe / Philip Manow -- Neoliberalism and the welfare state. Religion and the welfare state under neoliberal hegemony / Tuomas Martikainen -- The deregulation of Swedish welfare and religion - new challenges for the Lutheran majority church / Per Pettersson -- The double crisis of the welfare state and what we can do about it / Peter Taylor-Gooby -- Towards a gender-open future? Gendered labor policies in the US and Sweden, 1960s-2000s / Ann Shola Orloff -- Coda. The legitimacy of the welfare state / Frank Nullmeier -- Appendix. The welfare state: its roots in the Reformation and the Christian stamp it still bears today / Margot Käβmann, Gerhard Wegner -- Protestant ethics and the modern welfare state-late effects of the reformation : a congress report / Hans Joachim Schliep.