Focusing on the interdependence of business and religious life in America, this volume explores the business aspects of numerous religious organizations, with attention to the financing, production, marketing, and distribution of religious goods and services and to the role of wealth and economic organization in worship, charity, philanthropy, institutional growth and missionary work. Treating religion and business holistically, the essays show how business practiceshave continually informed American religious life, and how business has operated as a vital domain of religious life that historians of religion often overlook.…mehr
Focusing on the interdependence of business and religious life in America, this volume explores the business aspects of numerous religious organizations, with attention to the financing, production, marketing, and distribution of religious goods and services and to the role of wealth and economic organization in worship, charity, philanthropy, institutional growth and missionary work. Treating religion and business holistically, the essays show how business practiceshave continually informed American religious life, and how business has operated as a vital domain of religious life that historians of religion often overlook.
Amanda Porterfield is the Robert A. Spivey Professor of Religion and History at Florida State University. She is the author of several books in American religious history and the history of Christianity, including Corporate Spirit: Religion's Role in the Long History Behind Corporate America, forthcoming from Oxford University Press. John Corrigan is the Lucius Moody Bristol Distinguished Professor of Religion and Professor of History at Florida State University. He is author or editor of several books, including The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Emotion. Darren E. Grem is an Assistant Professor of History and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of The Blessings of Business: How Corporations Shaped Conservative Christianity (Oxford University Press, 2016).
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* Preface: Business, Religion, History, and Consilience * Robert E. Wright * Introduction: The Business Turn in American Religious History * John Corrigan, Darren Grem, and Amanda Porterfield * Believing within Business: Evangelicalism, Media, and Financial Faith * Daniel Vaca * Fundamentalism and the Business Turn * Timothy Gloege * Godly Work for a Global Christianity: American Christians' Economic Impact through Missions, Markets and International Development * David P. King * Approaching Zion: Mormon Ambivalence about Capitalism * Matthew Bowman * A Business Turn in American Jewish Religious History: Women and the Emergence of Popular Philanthropy * Deborah Skolnick Einhorn * The Business of Asian Religions: Guru Entrepreneurs and Godmen CEOs * Michael J. Altman * Hunting Buffalo In Oklahoma: Native American Casinos, Constructed Identities, and Portrayals of Native Culture and Religion * Angela Tarango * St. Homobonus Shepherds the CEOs: Doing Good versus Doing (Really) Well * Paula Kane * Afterword * James Hudnut-Beumler * Notes
* Preface: Business, Religion, History, and Consilience * Robert E. Wright * Introduction: The Business Turn in American Religious History * John Corrigan, Darren Grem, and Amanda Porterfield * Believing within Business: Evangelicalism, Media, and Financial Faith * Daniel Vaca * Fundamentalism and the Business Turn * Timothy Gloege * Godly Work for a Global Christianity: American Christians' Economic Impact through Missions, Markets and International Development * David P. King * Approaching Zion: Mormon Ambivalence about Capitalism * Matthew Bowman * A Business Turn in American Jewish Religious History: Women and the Emergence of Popular Philanthropy * Deborah Skolnick Einhorn * The Business of Asian Religions: Guru Entrepreneurs and Godmen CEOs * Michael J. Altman * Hunting Buffalo In Oklahoma: Native American Casinos, Constructed Identities, and Portrayals of Native Culture and Religion * Angela Tarango * St. Homobonus Shepherds the CEOs: Doing Good versus Doing (Really) Well * Paula Kane * Afterword * James Hudnut-Beumler * Notes
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