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In a fascinating look into the economics of American Protestantism, 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. He 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.
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"Recommend[ed] this book to anyone interested in church organization and finances. It is an excellent book for ministers and churches wanting historial context for giving and tithing, and is valuable reading for seminary ministry classes by framing a conversation about a subject that all ministers face regularly."-- Stone-Campbell Journal
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James Hudnut-Beumler is dean of the divinity school and Anne Potter Wilson Distinguished Professor of American Religious History at Vanderbilt University. He is author or coauthor of three other books, including Looking for God in the Suburbs: The Religion of the American Dream and Its Critics, 1945@-1965.
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- PublisherThe University of North Carolina Press
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0807883034
- ISBN 13 9780807883037
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages526
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In Pursuit of the Almighty's Dollar : A History of Money and American Protestantism
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University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2007
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ISBN 13: 9780807883037
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Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Large Print trade paperback 10.25 x 7 inches 500 pages. Study of financing churches in the 19th and 20th centuries including information on clergy income. As new condition. Seller Inventory # 000057
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In Pursuit of the Almighty's Dollar: A History of Money and American Protestantism
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