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Merchants and ministers : a history of businesspeople and clergy in the United States / Kevin Schmiesing.
Lippincott Library HF5388 .S37 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schmiesing, Kevin E., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Business--Religious aspects--Christianity--United States--History.
- Business.
- Businesspeople--United States--History.
- Businesspeople.
- Clergy--United States--History.
- Clergy.
- Business--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- History.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 249 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2017]
- Summary:
- Two of the most influential forces in American history are business and religion. Merchants and Ministers: A History of Businesspeople and Clergy in the United States 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. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Heretic merchants, pedlars in divinity, and other colonial characters
- The black regiment, Boston men, and other revolutionary characters
- Too little help from the pulpit: clergy and businesspeople in the Antebellum era
- The gospel of Christ and the gospel of wealth in the Gilded Age
- Jesus as salesman, socialist, savior: Christianity and business in the progressive era
- Honored but ill-defined: Christianity and business in depression, war, and beyond
- From segregation to social responsibility: 1960-2010.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Schmiesing, Kevin E., author. Merchants and ministers
- ISBN:
- 9781498539241
- 1498539246
- OCLC:
- 961008545
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