The blessings of business : how corporations shaped conservative Christianity / Darren E. Grem.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2016Description: xiii, 282 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780195227975
  • 0195227979
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Contents:
Part I. How big businessmen shaped conservative evangelicalism. Fundamentalist fronts: Herbert J. Taylor, businessmen, and the "revival" of conservative evangelicalism -- Corporate convictions: Billy Graham, big business, and the new evangelicalism -- Corporate crusades: markets, missions, and R.G. LeTourneau's cold war -- Part II. How conservative evangelicalism became big business. Marketplace missions: Chick-fil-A and the evangelical business sector -- Culture industries: Heritage USA and the corporatization of evangelical culture -- Free-market faith: Zig Ziglar and the business of evangelical culture war.
Summary: "Tells the largely forgotten story of the historical ties between conservative Protestants and corporate America; shows how business executives have been crucial to the growth of modern evangelicalism; explains how evangelicals attached their social and religious aspirations to American corporate culture and the private sector."--Https://global.oup.com.
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Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. How big businessmen shaped conservative evangelicalism. Fundamentalist fronts: Herbert J. Taylor, businessmen, and the "revival" of conservative evangelicalism -- Corporate convictions: Billy Graham, big business, and the new evangelicalism -- Corporate crusades: markets, missions, and R.G. LeTourneau's cold war -- Part II. How conservative evangelicalism became big business. Marketplace missions: Chick-fil-A and the evangelical business sector -- Culture industries: Heritage USA and the corporatization of evangelical culture -- Free-market faith: Zig Ziglar and the business of evangelical culture war.

"Tells the largely forgotten story of the historical ties between conservative Protestants and corporate America; shows how business executives have been crucial to the growth of modern evangelicalism; explains how evangelicals attached their social and religious aspirations to American corporate culture and the private sector."--Https://global.oup.com.

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