Andrew Lynn (Postdoctoral Fellow, Postdoctoral Fellow, University o

Saving the Protestant Ethic

Creative Class Evangelicalism and the Crisis of Work

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Produktbeschreibung

Andrew Lynn draws on archival research and interviews with movement leaders to survey and assess the surging number of new organizations, books, conferences, worship songs, seminary classes, vocational programming, and study groups promoting classically Protestant and Calvinist ideas of work and vocation with American Evangelicalism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 166mm x 244mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 632g
• ISBN-13: 9780190066680
• ISBN-10: 0190066687
• Artikelnr.: 65690438

Autorenporträt

Andrew Lynn is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. His work spans organizational theory, religious studies, and the history of ideas surrounding ethics and economics. He received a PhD in Sociology from the University of Virginia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part One: The Rise of the Evangelical Faith and Work Movement
Chapter One: More Than Toil
Chapter Two: The Fundamentalist Work Ethic
Chapter Three: The Making of a Movement
Chapter Four: The Four Evangelical Theologies of Work
Part Two: Contours, Contingencies, and Contending Interests
Chapter Five: Whose Work Matters to God?
Chapter Six: From the Christian Right to the Corporate Right
Chapter Seven: From Culture Wars to Cultural Stewardship
Chapter Eight: On Roads Not (Yet) Taken
Acknowledgements
Appendix A: Research Methods