In pursuit of the Almighty's dollar [[electronic resource] ] : a history of money and American Protestantism / / James Hudnut-Beumler
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Hudnut-Beumler James David
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| Titolo: |
In pursuit of the Almighty's dollar [[electronic resource] ] : a history of money and American Protestantism / / James Hudnut-Beumler
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| Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 241/.680882804 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Church history |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | In pursuit of the Almighty's dollar |
| ISBN: | 979-88-908789-8-4 |
| 0-8078-8304-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910781925103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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