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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814546003321

Autore

Hudnut-Beumler James David

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2007

ISBN

979-88-908789-8-4

0-8078-8304-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Disciplina

241/.680882804

Soggetti

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 history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-259) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Every day of the week in contemporary America (and especially on Sundays) people raise money for their religious enterprises--for clergy, educators, buildings, charity, youth-oriented work, and more. In a fascinating look into the economics of American Protestantism, James Hudnut-Beumler examines how churches have raised and spent money



from colonial times to the present and considers what these practices say about both religion and American culture. After the constitutional separation of church and state was put in force, Hudnut-Beumler explains, clergy salaries had to be collected ex