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Religion and the marketplace in the United States / edited by Jan Stievermann, Philip Goff, and Detlef Junker ; associate editors, Anthony Santoro and Daniel Silliman.

Contributor(s): Stievermann, Jan [editor.] | Goff, Philip, 1964- [editor.] | Junker, Detlef [editor.]
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: xii, 295 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780199361793; 0199361797Subject(s): United States -- Religion | Business -- Religious aspectsDDC classification: 201/.730973 LOC classification: BL2525 | .R46155 2015Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Why are Americans so religious? : the limitations of market explanations / E. Brooks Holifield -- Weber and eighteenth-century religious developments in America / Mark Valeri -- Billy Graham, Christian manliness, and the shaping of the evangelical subculture / Grant Wacker -- Money matters and family matters : James Dobson and Focus on the Family on the traditional family and capitalist America / Hilde Løvdal Stephens -- The commodification of William James : the book business and the rise of liberal spirituality in the twentieth-century United States / Matthew S. Hedstrom -- Literature and the economy of the sacred / Günter Leypoldt -- Publishers and profit motives : the economic history of Left behind / Daniel Silliman -- Selling infinite selves : youth culture and contemporary festivals / Sarah M. Pike -- Religious branding and the quest to meet consumer needs : Joel Osteen's "Message of hope" / Katja Rakow -- Unsilent partners : sports stadiums and their appropriation and use of sacred space / Anthony Santoro -- Considering the neoliberal in American religion / Kathryn Lofton.
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Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library Midrange BL2525 .R46155 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182903429450

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. Reassessment. Why are Americans so religious? : the limitations of market explanations / E. Brooks Holifield -- Part 2. Evangelicals and markets. Weber and eighteenth-century religious developments in America / Mark Valeri -- Billy Graham, Christian manliness, and the shaping of the evangelical subculture / Grant Wacker -- Money matters and family matters : James Dobson and Focus on the Family on the traditional family and capitalist America / Hilde Løvdal Stephens -- Part 3. Religious book markets. The commodification of William James : the book business and the rise of liberal spirituality in the twentieth-century United States / Matthew S. Hedstrom -- Literature and the economy of the sacred / Günter Leypoldt -- Publishers and profit motives : the economic history of Left behind / Daniel Silliman -- Part 4. Religious resistance and adaptation to the market. Selling infinite selves : youth culture and contemporary festivals / Sarah M. Pike -- Religious branding and the quest to meet consumer needs : Joel Osteen's "Message of hope" / Katja Rakow -- Unsilent partners : sports stadiums and their appropriation and use of sacred space / Anthony Santoro -- Part 5. Critical reflection and prospects. Considering the neoliberal in American religion / Kathryn Lofton.

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