Author: Gideons InternationalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Twenty-two Years' History of the Gideons
Author: Gideons InternationalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
The United States Catalog
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2188
Book Description
The United States Catalog
Author: Mary BurnhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1612
Book Description
The Business Turn in American Religious History
Author: Amanda PorterfieldPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190694599
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Business has received little attention in American religious history, although it has profound implications for understanding the sustained popularity and ongoing transformation of religion in the United States. This volume offers a wide ranging exploration of the business aspects of American religious organizations. The authors analyze the financing, production, marketing, and distribution of religious goods and services and the role of wealth and economic organization in sustaining and even shaping worship, charity, philanthropy, institutional growth, and missionary work. Treating religion and business holistically, their essays show that American religious life has always been informed by business practices. Laying the groundwork for further investigation, the authors show how American business has functioned as a domain for achieving religious goals. Indeed they find that religion has historically been more powerful when interwoven with business. Chapters on Mormon enterprise, Jewish philanthropy, Hindu gurus, Native American casinos, and the wedding of business wealth to conservative Catholic social teaching demonstrate the range of new studies stimulated by the business turn in American religious history. Other chapters show how evangelicals joined neo-liberal economic practice and right-wing politics to religious fundamentalism to consolidate wealth and power, and how they developed marketing campaigns and organizational strategies that transformed the American religious landscape. Included are essays exposing the moral compromises religious organizations have made to succeed as centers of wealth and influence, and the religious beliefs that rationalize and justify these compromises. Still others examine the application of business practices as a means of sustaining religious institutions and expanding their reach, and look at controversies over business practices within religious organizations, and the adjustments such organizations have made in response. Together, the essays collected here offer new ways of conceptualizing the interdependence of religion and business in the United States, establishing multiple paths for further study of their intertwined historical development.
Record of Christian Work
Author: Alexander McConnellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
Book Description
Includes music.
Catalogue of Title Entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Register of Copyrights, Library of Congress, at Washington, D.C.
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1728
Book Description
Henry's Scripture History. Third edition
Author: Joseph FERNANDEZ (B.A.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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The Standard History of the World
Author: Israel Smith ClarePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World history
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
A Manual of the Ancient History of the East to the Commencement of the Median Wars
Author: François LenormantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description
Library of Universal History, Containing a Record of the Human Race from the Earliest Historical Period to the Present Time
Author: Israel Smith ClarePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World history
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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