God's Businessmen

Entrepreneurial Evangelicals in Depression and War

Sarah Ruth Hammond (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2017
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-50977-8 (ISBN)

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The evangelical embrace of conservatism is a familiar feature of the contemporary political landscape. What's less well-known, however, is that the connection predates the Reagan revolution, going all the way back to the Depression and World War II. Evangelical businessman at the time were quite active in opposing the New Deal on both theological and economic grounds and in doing so claimed a place alongside other conservatives in the public sphere. Like previous generations of devout laymen, they self-consciously merged their religious and business lives, financing and organizing evangelical causes with the kind of visionary pragmatism that they practiced in the boardroom. In God's Businessmen, Sarah Ruth Hammond explores not only these men's personal trajectories but also those of the service clubs and other institutions that, like them, believed that businessmen were God's instrument for the Christianization of the world. Hammond presents a capacious portrait of the relationship between the evangelical business community and the New Deal and in doing so makes important contributions to American religious history, business history, and the history of the American state.

Sarah Ruth Hammond (1977-2011) received her PhD from Yale University in 2010, and subsequently held a position as visiting assistant professor at the College of William & Mary. Her research focused on American religious history. Darren Dochuk is associate professor of history at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism.

Erscheinungsdatum	29.01.2018
Sprache	englisch
Maße	16 x 24 mm
Gewicht	482 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
ISBN-10	0-226-50977-X / 022650977X
ISBN-13	978-0-226-50977-8 / 9780226509778
Zustand	Neuware