God and Mammon: Protestants, Money, and the Market, 1790-1860Mark A. Noll Oxford University Press, 2001 M11 29 - 328 páginas This collection of all new essays by leading historians offers a close look at the connections between American Protestants and money in the Antebellum period. During the first decades of the new American nation, money was everywhere on the minds of church leaders and many of their followers. Economic questions figured regularly in preaching and pamphleteering, and they contributed greatly to perceptions of morality both public and private. In fact, money was always a religious question. For this reason, argue the authors of these essays, it is impossible to understand broader cultural developments of the period--including political developments--without considering religion and economics together. In God and Mammon, several essays examine the ways in which the churches raised money after the end of establishment put a stop to state funding, such as the collection of pew rents, lotteries, and free-will offerings, which only came later and at first were used only for benevolent purposes. Other essays look at the role of money and markets in the rise of Christian voluntary societies. Still others examine the inter-denominational strife, documenting frequent accusations that theological error led to the misuse of money and the arrogance of wealth. Taken together, the essays provide essential background to an issue that continues to loom large and generate controversy in the Protestant community in America. |
Contenido
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Charles Sellers the Market Revolution and the Shaping of Identity in WhigJacksonian America | 54 |
Charles Sellerss Antinomians and Arminians Methodists and the Market Revolution | 75 |
E P Thompson and Methodism | 99 |
A Tale of Preachers and Beggars Methodism and Money in the Great Age of Transatlantic Expansion 17801830 | 123 |
Benevolent Capital Financing Evangelical Book Publishing in Early Nineteenthcentury America | 147 |
Philadelphia Presbyterians Capitalism and the Morality of Economic Success | 171 |
Trauma in Methodism Property Church Schism and Sectional Polarization in Antebellum America | 195 |
A Mere Calculation of Proftts and Loss The Southern Clergy and the Economic Culture of the Antebellum North | 217 |
TurningPiety into Hard Cash The Marketing of Nineteenthcentury Revivalism | 236 |
Protestant Reasoning about Money and the Economy 17901860 A Preliminary Probe | 265 |
Afterword | 295 |
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God and Mammon: Protestants, Money, and the Market, 1790-1860 Mark A. Noll Vista previa limitada - 2001 |
God and Mammon: Protestants, Money, and the Market, 1790-1860 Mark A. Noll Vista previa limitada - 2001 |
God and Mammon: Protestants, Money, and the Market, 1790-1860 Mark A. Noll Vista previa limitada - 2002 |
Términos y frases comunes
abolitionism abolitionists American Bible Society American Methodism American Tract Society Annual Report antebellum antinomian Arminianism auxiliaries Baptists benevolence Book Concern Boston Bunting Mss Calvinist Cambridge capitalism capitalist chapel chapter charity Charles Christian Advocate circuits City commercial Conference congregations culture Daniel Walker Democratic denominations disestablishmentarian divine E. P. Thompson Early Republic economic England evangelical example Finney funds Gospel growth historians History Ibid income industrial itinerant Jabez Bunting Jacksonian James John Journal land manufacturing Market Revolution ment Methodist Episcopal Church ministry missionary moral movement nineteenth century North Northern Old School Oxford University Press period Philadelphia piety political prayer preachers preaching Presbyterian Presbyterian Church prosperity Protestant Protestantism publishing reform religion religious revival revivalist Richard Carwardine Schism Second Great Awakening Sellers Sellers's Sermon slave slavery social South Southern ministers theological tion traditional United urban voluntary wealth Whig William York
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Página 5 - States, the sovereign authority is religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common ; but there is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America...
Página 4 - This marriage ceremony seemed to me characteristic of that haste and precipitation for which I have often heard the Americans reproached. Life is short, say they, and therefore they hurry along its path, dispensing with all needless forms and fashions which might impede the necessary business of life, and perform even this as rapidly as possible, making five minutes suffice to be married in...
Página 4 - There are no sects in America, no Dissenters, no seceders; — or, whatever other term may be employed to designate the position and standing of a Christian society. They are all alike considered as Christians ; and adopting, according to the judgment of charity, with equal honesty the common charter of salvation, the word of God, they are treated as equal, and as possessing similar and indefeasible rights. This is certainly a new aspect of living and visible Christianity; and our business with it...
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America's Economic Moralists: A History of Rival Ethics and Economics Donald E. Frey Vista previa limitada - 2009 |