TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stievermann,Jan
TI  - Religion and the marketplace in the United States
SN  - 9780199361793
AV  - BL 2525 .R46155 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Business
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - fast
KW  - Religion
KW  - United States
N1  - Includes index; 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 L�vdal 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; G�unter 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
ER  -