In pursuit of the Almighty's dollar [electronic resource] : a history of money and American Protestantism / James Hudnut-Beumler.

By: Hudnut-Beumler, James DavidContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2007Description: xviii, 267 p. : illSubject(s): Economics -- Religious aspects -- Christianity | Money -- Religious aspects -- Christianity | Protestantism -- United States -- History | Protestant churches -- United States -- History | Protestant churches -- Doctrines -- History | Christian stewardship | Money -- United States -- History | United States -- Church historyGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 241/.680882804 LOC classification: BR115.E3 | H78 2007Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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.
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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.

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