03515nam 22006974a 450 991045156840332120200520144314.00-8078-8304-2(CKB)1000000000487673(EBL)361345(OCoLC)233577905(SSID)ssj0000177727(PQKBManifestationID)11180001(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000177727(PQKBWorkID)10235065(PQKB)11501073(MiAaPQ)EBC361345(Au-PeEL)EBL361345(CaPaEBR)ebr10273419(CaONFJC)MIL929287(EXLCZ)99100000000048767320060630d2007 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrIn pursuit of the Almighty's dollar[electronic resource] a history of money and American Protestantism /James Hudnut-BeumlerChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20071 online resource (288 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4696-1475-8 0-8078-3079-8 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.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 exEconomicsReligious aspectsChristianityMoneyReligious aspectsChristianityProtestantismUnited StatesHistoryProtestant churchesUnited StatesHistoryProtestant churchesDoctrinesHistoryChristian stewardshipMoneyUnited StatesHistoryUnited StatesChurch historyElectronic books.EconomicsReligious aspectsChristianity.MoneyReligious aspectsChristianity.ProtestantismHistory.Protestant churchesHistory.Protestant churchesDoctrinesHistory.Christian stewardship.MoneyHistory.241/.680882804Hudnut-Beumler James David965941MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451568403321In pursuit of the Almighty's dollar2192055UNINA