Faith in markets: Christian capitalism in the early American republic
"Faith in Markets demonstrates how religiously motivated choices shaped market activity, as well as the market itself, through the creation of Christian Business Enterprises (CBEs) in the early decades of nineteenth-century America. Slaughter focuses on the ways theologically conservative Prote...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Columbia University Press
2023
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| In: | Year: 2023 |
| Series/Journal: | Columbia studies in the history of U.S. capitalism
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| Further subjects: | B
Protestant Churches (United States)
History
B Capitalism Religious aspects Protestant churches History of doctrines B United States Economic conditions To 1865 B Capitalism (United States) History 19th century B United States Church history 19th century B Christian-owned business enterprises (United States) History 19th century |
| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: Slaughter, Joseph P: Faith in markets. - New York : Columbia University Press, [2023]. - 9780231549257 |
| Summary: | "Faith in Markets demonstrates how religiously motivated choices shaped market activity, as well as the market itself, through the creation of Christian Business Enterprises (CBEs) in the early decades of nineteenth-century America. Slaughter focuses on the ways theologically conservative Protestants infused their businesses with faith and in turn, how these businesses shaped American capitalism and culture. Three CBEs of the American early national period form the core of Faith in Markets: George Rapp & Associates (the Harmony Society of Western Pennsylvania/Southern Indiana), the Pioneer Stage Coach Line (upstate New York), and Harper & Brothers (New York City). These businesses reflect the most influential Christian theologies of early America: Pietism, Calvinism, and Arminianism. Each of the manuscript's three parts is built around one of these cases. Part I focuses on how Lutheran Pietists attempted to purify the market, and in so doing provided an alternate vision of communal capitalism. Part II explores how evangelical Presbyterians strove to reform the market, not through legislation or volunteerism, but through business enterprise. Finally, part III examines how urban Methodists produced cultural objects (books!) that nudged American culture toward a middle-class, Victorian ideal, all while building a business that others regarded as the model of trustworthiness in a new era of anonymous market exchange"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0231191103 |