The Pew and the Picket Line : Christianity and the American Working Class / edited by Christopher D. Cantwell, Heath W. Carter, and Janine Giordano Drake.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cantwell, Christopher D., 1980- editor.

Series:

Working class in American history.

The working class in American history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Work--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Work.

Labor--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Labor.

Working class--Religious life.

Working class.

United States--Church history.

United States.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Place of Publication:

Urbana, [Illinois] ; Chicago, [Illinois] ; Springfield, [Illinois] : University of Illinois Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Innovative essays on how faith and capitalism have shaped one-another in the United States

Contents:

Cover; Title; Contents; Foreword: A Spiritual Turn?; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Between the Pew and the Picket Line; Part I: Manufacturing Christianity; Part II: Christianizing Capitalism; Contributors; Index; 1 George Lippard, Ignatius Donnelly, and the Esoteric Theology of American Labor Dan McKanan; 2 Catholicism and Working-Class Activism in Providence Evelyn Sterne; 3 Faith Powers and Gambling Spirits in Late Gilded-Age Metal Mining Jarod Roll; 4 Discovering Working-Class Religion in a 1950s Auto Plant Matthew Pehl

5 Black Power and Black Theology in Cairo, Illinois Kerry L. Pimblott6 Emma Tenayuca, Religious Elites, and the 1938 Pecan-Shellers' Strike Arlene Sánchez-Walsh; 7 Radical Christianity and Cooperative Economics in the Postwar South Alison Collis Greene; 8 Catholic Social Policy and Resistance to the Bracero Program Brett Hendrickson; 9 Black Freedom Struggles and Ecumenical Activism in 1960s Chicago Erik S. Gellman

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-252-09817-X

OCLC:

939827460