In pursuit of the Almighty's dollar a history of money and American Protestantism /
Hudnut-Beumler, James David.
In pursuit of the Almighty's dollar a history of money and American Protestantism / [electronic resource] : James Hudnut-Beumler. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2007. - xviii, 267 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-259) and index.
Prologue: Sunday morning 1750 -- Paying for God: the genesis of an American institution, 1800-1860 -- Capital ideas: building American churches, 1750-1860 -- Reinventing the tithe and discovering stewardship, 1870-1920 -- Paying the clergy: officials, professionals, or servants? -- Stewardship in crisis and technique in ascendancy, 1920-1945 -- Changing the nature of the firm: from institutional to consumer churches -- Churches expanding in all directions, 1945-1980 -- Ministers' wives: a view from the side of labor -- In America you can have as much religion as you can pay for, 1980 to the present.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Economics--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Money--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Protestantism--History.--United States
Protestant churches--History.--United States
Protestant churches--Doctrines--History.
Christian stewardship.
Money--History.--United States
United States--Church history.
Electronic books.
BR115.E3 / H78 2007
241/.680882804
In pursuit of the Almighty's dollar a history of money and American Protestantism / [electronic resource] : James Hudnut-Beumler. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2007. - xviii, 267 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-259) and index.
Prologue: Sunday morning 1750 -- Paying for God: the genesis of an American institution, 1800-1860 -- Capital ideas: building American churches, 1750-1860 -- Reinventing the tithe and discovering stewardship, 1870-1920 -- Paying the clergy: officials, professionals, or servants? -- Stewardship in crisis and technique in ascendancy, 1920-1945 -- Changing the nature of the firm: from institutional to consumer churches -- Churches expanding in all directions, 1945-1980 -- Ministers' wives: a view from the side of labor -- In America you can have as much religion as you can pay for, 1980 to the present.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Economics--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Money--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Protestantism--History.--United States
Protestant churches--History.--United States
Protestant churches--Doctrines--History.
Christian stewardship.
Money--History.--United States
United States--Church history.
Electronic books.
BR115.E3 / H78 2007
241/.680882804