In Pursuit of the Almighty's Dollar: A History of Money and American ProtestantismUniv of North Carolina Press, 2007年3月5日 - 288 頁 Every day of the week in contemporary America (and especially on Sundays) people raise money for their religious enterprises--for clergy, educators, buildings, charity, youth-oriented work, and more. In a fascinating look into the economics of American Protestantism, James Hudnut-Beumler examines how churches have raised and spent money from colonial times to the present and considers what these practices say about both religion and American culture. After the constitutional separation of church and state was put in force, Hudnut-Beumler explains, clergy salaries had to be collected exclusively from the congregation without recourse to public funds. In adapting to this change, Protestants forged a new model that came to be followed in one way or another by virtually all religious organizations in the country. Clergy repeatedly invoked God, ecclesiastical tradition, and scriptural evidence to promote giving to the churches they served. Hudnut-Beumler contends that paying for earthly good works done in the name of God has proved highly compatible with American ideas of enterprise, materialism, and individualism. The financial choices Protestants have made throughout history--how money was given, expended, or even withheld--have reflected changing conceptions of what the religious enterprise is all about. Hudnut-Beumler tells that story for the first time. |
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Sunday Morning 1750 | 1 |
Paying for God The Genesis of an American Institution 18001860 | 6 |
Capital Ideas Building American Churches 17501860 | 32 |
Reinventing the Tithe and Discovering Stewardship 18701920 | 47 |
Paying the Clergy Officials Professionals or Servants? | 76 |
Stewardship in Crisis and Technique in Ascendancy 19201945 | 97 |
Changing the Nature of the Firm From Institutional to Consumer Churches | 132 |
Churches Expanding in All Directions 19451980 | 150 |
Ministers Wives A View from the Side of Labor | 187 |
In America You Can Have as Much Religion as You Can Pay For 1980 to the Present | 199 |
EPILOGUE | 228 |
Ministerial Support in the Methodist Episcopal Church and United Methodist Church 18802000 | 231 |
Historical Price Series Conversion Scale | 236 |
Notes | 239 |
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