The Business Turn in American Religious History 1st Edition by Amanda Porterfield 0190694593 9780190694593

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ISBN-10 :  0190694593 

ISBN-13 : 9780190694593

Author: Amanda Porterfield 

Business has received little attention in American religious history, although it has profound implications for understanding the sustained popularity and ongoing transformation of religion in the United States. This volume offers a wide ranging exploration of the business aspects of American religious organizations. The authors analyze the financing, production, marketing, and distribution of religious goods and services and the role of wealth and economic organization in sustaining and even shaping worship, charity, philanthropy, institutional growth, and missionary work. Treating religion and business holistically, their essays show that American religious life has always been informed by business practices. Laying the groundwork for further investigation, the authors show how American business has functioned as a domain for achieving religious goals. Indeed they find that religion has historically been more powerful when interwoven with business. Chapters on Mormon enterprise, Jewish philanthropy, Hindu gurus, Native American casinos, and the wedding of business wealth to conservative Catholic social teaching demonstrate the range of new studies stimulated by the business turn in American religious history.

The Business Turn in American Religious History 1st Table of contents:

1. Believing Within Business: Evangelicalism, Media, and Financial Faith
2. Fundamentalism and the Business Turn
3. Godly Work for a Global Christianity: American Christians’ Economic Impact Through Missions, Markets, and International Development
4. Liberty and Order: The Mormon Struggle with American Capitalism
5. A Business Turn in American Jewish Religious History: Women and the Emergence of Popular Philanthropy
6. The Business of Asian Religions: Guru Entrepreneurs and Godmen CEOs
7. Hunting Buffalo in Oklahoma: Native American Casinos, Constructed Identities, and Portrayals of Native Culture and Religion
8. St. Homobonus Leads the CEOs: Doing Good Versus Doing (Really) Well

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