Kevin Schmiesing

Merchants and Ministers (eBook, ePUB)

A History of Businesspeople and Clergy in the United States

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Two of the most influential forces in American history are business and religion. Merchants and Ministers weaves the two together in a history of the relationship between businesspeople and Christian clergy. From fur traders and missionaries who explored the interior of the continent to Gilded-Age corporate titans and their clerical confidants to black businessmen and their ministerial collaborators in the Civil Rights movement, Merchants and Ministers tells stories of interactions between businesspeople and clergy from the colonial period to the present. It presents a complex picture of this relationship, highlighting both conflict and cooperation between the two groups. By placing anecdotal detail in the context of general developments in commerce and Christianity, Merchants and Ministers traces the contours of American history and illuminates those contours with the personal stories of businesspeople and clergy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498539258
• Artikelnr.: 47473973

Autorenporträt

Kevin Schmiesing is a research fellow at the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 "Heretic Merchants," "Pedlars in Divinity," and Other Colonial
Characters
Chapter 2 The "Black Regiment," "Boston Men," and Other Revolutionary
Characters
Chapter 3 "Too Little Help from the Pulpit": Clergy and Businesspeople in
the Antebellum Era
Chapter 4 The "Gospel of Christ" and the "Gospel of Wealth" in the Gilded
Age
Chapter 5 Jesus as Salesman, Socialist, Savior: Christianity and Business
in the Progressive Era
Chapter 6 "Honored but Ill-Defined": Christianity and Business in
Depression, War, and Beyond
Chapter 7 From Segregation to Social Responsibility: 1960-2010