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The power of mammon : the market, secularization, and New York Baptists, 1790-1922 / Curtis D. Johnson.
Van Pelt Library BX6248.N7 J64 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnson, Curtis D., 1939- author.
- Series:
- America's Baptists
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Baptists--New York (State)--History.
- Baptists.
- Christianity and culture.
- History.
- Church history.
- New York (State)--Church history.
- New York (State).
- Christianity and culture--New York (State)--History.
- Capitalism--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Capitalism.
- Free enterprise--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Free enterprise.
- Genre:
- Church history.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "Curtis D. Johnson argues that the values and attractions of the market revolution triggered changes in congregational life that secularized New York State Baptist congregations in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The market and associated forces, such as media, politics, individualism, and consumerism, affected Baptist belief and behavior so that, after a century of change, Baptist congregations were far weaker institutions than they had been earlier. The Baptist experience suggests that the seeds of religion's fading influence in contemporary America were actually sown two hundred years ago"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Covenanted Communities, 1790-1820
- 1. People's Churches
- 2. A Place for (Some) Women
- 3. On Revivals and Awakenings
- pt. 2 The Market Revolution, 1820-1845
- 4. The Transforming Market
- 5. Ministers and the Market
- 6. Women Lose Their Place
- 7. Constricting Liberty
- 8. The Protracted Meeting Myth
- 9. Apocalypse
- pt. 3 The Process of Secularization, 1835-1860
- 10. Individualism Triumphant
- 11. Something Old, Something New
- pt. 4 Baptists and the Commercial Establishment, 1860-1922
- 12. The Market Enshrined
- 13. Women to the Rescue
- 14. Divided Baptists
- 15. Evangelism in a Secular Age.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-247) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Johnson, Curtis D., 1939- Power of mammon
- ISBN:
- 9781621906919
- 1621906914
- OCLC:
- 1250383550
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