LEADER 03515nam 22006974a 450 001 9910451568403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8078-8304-2 035 $a(CKB)1000000000487673 035 $a(EBL)361345 035 $a(OCoLC)233577905 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000177727 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11180001 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000177727 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10235065 035 $a(PQKB)11501073 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC361345 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL361345 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10273419 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL929287 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000487673 100 $a20060630d2007 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aIn pursuit of the Almighty's dollar$b[electronic resource] $ea history of money and American Protestantism /$fJames Hudnut-Beumler 210 $aChapel Hill $cUniversity of North Carolina Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (288 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4696-1475-8 311 $a0-8078-3079-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [239]-259) and index. 327 $aPrologue: 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. 330 $aEvery 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 606 $aEconomics$xReligious aspects$xChristianity 606 $aMoney$xReligious aspects$xChristianity 606 $aProtestantism$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aProtestant churches$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aProtestant churches$xDoctrines$xHistory 606 $aChristian stewardship 606 $aMoney$zUnited States$xHistory 607 $aUnited States$xChurch history 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEconomics$xReligious aspects$xChristianity. 615 0$aMoney$xReligious aspects$xChristianity. 615 0$aProtestantism$xHistory. 615 0$aProtestant churches$xHistory. 615 0$aProtestant churches$xDoctrines$xHistory. 615 0$aChristian stewardship. 615 0$aMoney$xHistory. 676 $a241/.680882804 700 $aHudnut-Beumler$b James David$0965941 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451568403321 996 $aIn pursuit of the Almighty's dollar$92192055 997 $aUNINA