In pursuit of the Almighty's dollar [electronic resource] : a history of money and American Protestantism / James Hudnut-Beumler.
Publication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2007.Description: xviii, 267 p. : illISBN:- 0807830798 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780807830796 (cloth : alk. paper)
- Christian stewardship
- Economics -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
- Money -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
- Money -- United States -- History
- Protestant churches -- Doctrines -- History
- Protestant churches -- United States -- History
- Protestantism -- United States -- History
- United States -- Church history
- 241/.680882804 22
- BR115.E3 H78 2007eb
eBooks
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.
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