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Is the soul materialistic?

While going through quite a few texts of soul searching and religious doctrines, something that warrants a mention is the materialistic side of the world within us, around us and without us. Hinduism by some means has taught us the idea of wealth goddess being treated as the one who serves the guy who creates maya . A wife is to be treated as the Lakshmi(Goddess of wealth). In the metaphysical affianced directions, it is explained that the wife is expected to teach the man(so called husband), the importance of wealth to setup a family and future. In some other contexts, it is revealed that man had learned to overcome death by reproduction. The genetics suggests that future generations has we in them already. The Christian world has taught the discipline of being devoted to work and where it takes man in the rebuild of the Europe and other countries as we see it from where it was five centuries ago.  Can we equate wealth to materialism? Is it that simple? If yes,