God and Mammon Protestants, Money, and the Market, 1790-1860

Name: God and Mammon Protestants, Money, and the Market, 1790-1860
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ISBN: 9780195148015

ISBN-10: 0195148010

ISBN-13: 9780195148015

Edition: 2002

Authors: Mark A. Noll

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This collection of essays by leading historians offers a close look at the connections between American Protestants and money in the Antebellum period. During the first decades of the new American nation, money was everywhere on the minds of church leaders and many of their followers. Economic questions figured regularly in preaching and pamphleteering, and convictions about money contributed greatly to perceptions of morality both public and private. In fact, money was always a religious question. For this reason, argue the authors of these essays, it is impossible to understand broader cultural developments of the period--including political developments--without considering religion and…

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List price: $90.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/29/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.09" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Mark A. Noll is McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. He is author or editor of 35 books, including the award-winning America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln.



Acknowledgments


Contributors



Contexts



Introduction


Notes



Protestants and the American Economy in the Postcolonial Period: an Overview


Notes



Charles Sellers, the Market Revolution, and the Shaping of Identity in Whig-Jacksonian America


Notes



Charles Sellers's "Antinomians" and "Arminians": Methodists and the Market Revolution


Notes



E. P. Thompson and Methodism


Notes



Finance and the Expansion of American Protestantism



A Tale of Preachers and Beggars: Methodism and Money in the Great Age of Transatlantic Expansion, 1780-1830


Notes



Benevolent Capital: Financing Evangelical Book Publishing in Early Nineteenth-Century America


Notes



Philadelphia Presbyterians, Capitalism, and the Morality of Economic Success


Notes



The Economics of Sectional Strife and Revival



Trauma in Methodism: Property, Church Schism, and Sectional Polarization in Antebellum America


Notes



A Mere Calculation of Profits and Loss: The Southern Clergy and the Economic Culture of the Antebellum North


Notes



Turning Piety into Hard Cash: The Marketing of Nineteenth-Century Revivalism


Notes



General Perspectives



Protestant Reasoning about Money and the Economy, 1790-1860: Preliminary Probe


Notes


References



Afterword


Notes


Index