The Pew and the Picket Line : Christianity and the American Working Class /

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

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Cantwell, Christopher D., 1980- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana, Chicago : University of Illinois Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Working class > Religious life.
Work > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Labor > Religious aspects > Christianity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology of Religion.
RELIGION > Christianity > History.
Travailleurs > Vie religieuse.
United States.
États-Unis > Histoire religieuse.
United States > Church history.
Church history.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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