Amanda Porterfield (Robert Robert A. Spivey Professor of Religion

Corporate Spirit

Religion and the Rise of the Modern Corporation

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Produktbeschreibung

In this groundbreaking work, Amanda Porterfield looks at the intertwining of commercial and religious forces in the history of incorporation in the US. She focuses on three elements-the revolutionary implications of religious disestablishment, the proliferation of religious organizations, and religious organizations as models of commercial operation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9780199372652
• ISBN-10: 0199372659
• Artikelnr.: 49444032

Autorenporträt

Amanda Porterfield is Robert A. Spivey Professor of Religion at the Florida State University. She is the author of Healing in the History of Christianity and the co-editor of The Business Turn in American Religious History (with Darren Grem and John Corrigan).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part One: Corporate Organization in Roman Antiquity and Medieval Europe
Chapter One
Founding Visions:
The Ancient Roots of Corporate Organization
Chapter Two
"So poignant a memory of the past":
Corporate Accountability in Medieval Christendom
Chapter Three
"We need not see the church with the eyes":
Corporate Presence in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Part Two: Corporate Organization in America
Chapter Four
"The hearty hand of friendship":
New Men and Corporate Enterprise in British America
Chapter Five
Sanctifying Contracts and Persons:
Corporate Expansion in America's "infant republics"
Chapter Six
"The real nature and Spirit of our lives":
The Evolution of Corporate Personality, 1865-1920
Chapter Seven
"The very heart and soul and spirit of our national will":
Promoting the Corporate Dream, 1920-1980
Chapter Eight
Between Faith and Delusion:
Corporate Credit after 1980
Epilogue