Business And Religion In The American 1920s

Business And Religion In The American 1920s Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Business And Religion In The American 1920s book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.

Business and Religion in the American 1920s

Author : Rolf Lunden
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1988-02-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780313251511

Get Book

Business and Religion in the American 1920s by Rolf Lunden Pdf

Addressing a phenomenon that continues to shape our culture today, Professor Lunden presents a full-length analysis of the relationship between business and religion during the 1920s. He examines both the impact of the business mentality on Protestant institutions and values and the effects of religion on business. Beginning with a discussion of business and entrepreneurship as determining factors in the development of American society, Lunden looks at the position of the Protestant churches vis-a-vis business. He next explores business attitudes toward religion. Commenting on the adoption of specific Judeo-Christian concepts, religion. Commenting on the adoption of specific Judeo-Christian concepts, he describes both how these concepts were applied in a business context and what concessions were made by business when Protestant values came into conflict with those of the commercial world. In his final chapter he considers the implications of the business community's appropriation of religious functions and the widespread belief that its mission was linked to the redemption of society.

Business and Religion in the American 1920s

Author : Rolf Lunden
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1988-02-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015019112815

Get Book

Business and Religion in the American 1920s by Rolf Lunden Pdf

Addressing a phenomenon that continues to shape our culture today, Professor Lunden presents a full-length analysis of the relationship between business and religion during the 1920s. He examines both the impact of the business mentality on Protestant institutions and values and the effects of religion on business. Beginning with a discussion of business and entrepreneurship as determining factors in the development of American society, Lunden looks at the position of the Protestant churches vis-a-vis business. He next explores business attitudes toward religion. Commenting on the adoption of specific Judeo-Christian concepts, religion. Commenting on the adoption of specific Judeo-Christian concepts, he describes both how these concepts were applied in a business context and what concessions were made by business when Protestant values came into conflict with those of the commercial world. In his final chapter he considers the implications of the business community's appropriation of religious functions and the widespread belief that its mission was linked to the redemption of society.

American Culture in the 1920s

Author : Susan Currell
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780748630851

Get Book

American Culture in the 1920s by Susan Currell Pdf

Introduces the major cultural and intellectual trends of the decade by introducing and assessing the development of the primary cultural forms: namely, Fiction, Poetry and Drama, Music and Performance, Film and Radio, and Visual Art and Design. A fifth chapter focuses on the unprecedented rise in the 1920s of Leisure and Consumption.

American Studies

Author : Jack Salzman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1124 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1990-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0521365597

Get Book

American Studies by Jack Salzman Pdf

This volume supplements the acclaimed three volume set published in 1986 and consists of an annotated listing of American Studies monographs published between 1984 and 1988. There are more than 6,000 descriptive entries in a wide range of categories: anthropology and folklore, art and architecture, history, literature, music, political science, popular culture, psychology, religion, science and technology, and sociology.

Merchants and Ministers

Author : Kevin Schmiesing
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781498539258

Get Book

Merchants and Ministers by Kevin Schmiesing Pdf

Two of the most influential forces in American history are business and religion. Merchants and Ministers weaves the two together in a history of the relationship between businesspeople and Christian clergy. From fur traders and missionaries who explored the interior of the continent to Gilded-Age corporate titans and their clerical confidants to black businessmen and their ministerial collaborators in the Civil Rights movement, Merchants and Ministers tells stories of interactions between businesspeople and clergy from the colonial period to the present. It presents a complex picture of this relationship, highlighting both conflict and cooperation between the two groups. By placing anecdotal detail in the context of general developments in commerce and Christianity, Merchants and Ministers traces the contours of American history and illuminates those contours with the personal stories of businesspeople and clergy.

Selling the Old-time Religion

Author : Douglas Carl Abrams
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0820322946

Get Book

Selling the Old-time Religion by Douglas Carl Abrams Pdf

The relationship between Protestant fundamentalists and mass culture is often considered complex and ambiguous. Selling the Old-Time Religion examines this relationship and shows how the first generation of fundamentalists embraced the modern business and entertainment techniques of marketing, advertising, drama, film, radio, and publishing to spread the gospel. Selectively, and with more sophistication than has been accorded to them, fundamentalists adapted to the consumer society and popular culture with the accompanying values of materialism and immediate gratification, despite the seeming conflict between these values and certain tenets of their religious beliefs. Selling the Old-Time Religion is written by a fundamentalist who is based at the country's foremost fundamentalist institute of higher education. It is a candid and remarkable piece of scholarship that reveals from the inside the movement's first encounters with some of the media methods it now wields with well-documented virtuosity. Carl Abrams draws extensively on sermons, popular journals, and educational archives to reveal the attitudes and actions of the fundamental leadership and the laity. Abrams discusses how fundamentalists' outlook toward contemporary trends and events shifted from aloofness to engagement as they moved inward from the margins of American culture and began to weigh in on the day's issues--from jazz to "flappers"--in large numbers. Fundamentalists in the 1920s and 1930s "were willing to compromise certain traditions that defined the movement, such as premillennialism, holiness, and defense of the faith," Abrams concludes, "but their flexibility with forms of consumption and pleasure strengthened their evangelistic emphasis, perhaps the movement's core." Contrary to the myth of fundamentalism's demise after the Scopes Trial, the movement's uses of mass culture help explain their success in the decades following it. In the end fundamentalists imitated mass culture not to be like the world but to evangelize it.

The Right of the Protestant Left

Author : M. Edwards
Publisher : Springer
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137019905

Get Book

The Right of the Protestant Left by M. Edwards Pdf

While serving as an introduction to ecumenical liberal Protestantism and the social gospel over the course of the twentieth-century this book also highlights certain totalitarian as well as more fundamental conservative tendencies within those movements.

Faith in the Market

Author : John Michael Giggie,Diane H. Winston
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0813530997

Get Book

Faith in the Market by John Michael Giggie,Diane H. Winston Pdf

Reveals the many ways in which religious groups actually embraced commercial culture to establish an urban presence. [back cover].

Selling God

Author : Robert Laurence Moore
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195098389

Get Book

Selling God by Robert Laurence Moore Pdf

In a sweeping colourful history that spans over two centuries of American culture, Moore examines the role of religion in America as it appropriated (and was appropriated by) commercial culture. He reveals the centrality of religion, and the marketplace, in American popular culture.

Spirituality, Inc

Author : Lake Lambert,Lake Lambert III
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780814752463

Get Book

Spirituality, Inc by Lake Lambert,Lake Lambert III Pdf

Finding meaning in business -- The genealogy of corporate spirituality -- The making of a Christian company -- How Jesus became a management guru -- The spiritual education of a manager -- Team chaplains, life coaches, and whistling referees -- The future of workplace spirituality.

Protestants & Pictures

Author : David Morgan
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780195130294

Get Book

Protestants & Pictures by David Morgan Pdf

In exploring the rise of this culture, author David Morgan shows how Protestants used mass-produced images to dedicate religious revival, proselytism, mass education, and domestic nurture to the aim of national renewal."--BOOK JACKET.

Church Advertising, Public Relations and Marketing in Twentieth-Century America

Author : John C. Hardin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031130441

Get Book

Church Advertising, Public Relations and Marketing in Twentieth-Century America by John C. Hardin Pdf

This book examines the complex relationship between religion and business in twentieth-century America. It is the story of how Christianity’s most basic institution, the local church, wrestled with the challenges and compromises of competing in the modern marketplace through adopting the advertising, public relations, and marketing methods of business. It follows these sacred promoters, and their critics, as they navigated between divinely inspired and consumer demanded. Amid an animated and contentious battleground for principles, practices and parishioners, John C. Hardin explores the landscape of selling religion in America and its evolution over the twentieth century.

The Molecular Vision of Life

Author : Lily E. Kay
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : California Institute of Technology
ISBN : 9780195111439

Get Book

The Molecular Vision of Life by Lily E. Kay Pdf

This fascinating study examines the rise of American molecular biology to disciplinary dominance, focusing on the period between 1930 and the elucidation of DNA structure in the mid 1950s. Research undertaken during this period, with its focus on genetic structure and function, endowed scientists with then unprecedented power over life. By viewing the new biology as both a scientific and cultural enterprise, Lily E. Kay shows that the growth of molecular biology was a result of systematic efforts by key scientists and their sponsors to direct the development of biological research toward a shared vision of science and society. She analyzes the motivations and mechanisms empowering this vision by focusing on two key institutions: Caltech and its sponsor, the Rockefeller Foundation. Her study explores a number of vital, sometimes controversial topics, among them the role of private power centers in shaping scientific agenda, and the political dimensions of "pure" research. It also advances a sobering argument: the cognitive and social groundwork for genetic engineering and human genome projects was laid by the American architects of molecular biology during these early decades of the project. This book will be of interest to molecular biologists, historians, sociologists, and the general reader alike.

Service Clubs in American Society

Author : Jeffrey A. Charles
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0252020154

Get Book

Service Clubs in American Society by Jeffrey A. Charles Pdf

Placing the clubs in the context of twentieth-century middle-class culture, Charles maintains that they represented the response of locally oriented, traditional middle-class men to societal changes. The groups emerged at a time when service was becoming both a middle-class and a business ideal. As voluntary associations, they represented a shift in organizing rationale, from fraternalism to service. The clubs and their ideology of service were welcome as a unifying force at a time when small cities and towns were beset by economic and population pressures.

Icons of American Protestantism

Author : David Morgan
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300063423

Get Book

Icons of American Protestantism by David Morgan Pdf

Although American Protestants often claim that they are opposed to the use of devotional images in their religious life, they in fact draw on a vast body of religious icons to disseminate confessional views, to teach, and to celebrate birthdays, baptisms, confirmations, and sacred holidays. This fascinating book focuses on the production, marketing, and reception of one such set of religious illustrations, the art of Warner Sallman (1892-1968), whose 1940 Head of Christ has been reproduced an estimated five hundred million times. Five scholars--three art historians, a church historian, and a historian of material culture--investigate various aspects of Sallman's career and art, in the process revealing much about the role of imagery in the everyday devotional life of American Protestants since the 1940s. The chapters examine Sallman's work in terms of the visual sources, media, and forms of use that shaped its making; its mass production, marketing, and distribution by publishers and vendors; and the commercial nature of Sallman's training and his work as an illustrator. Other chapters explore the reception of his religious imagery among those who admired it and saw in it a vision of the world as they would have it exist; the religious and theological context of conservative American Protestantism in which the imagery flourished; and its critical reception among liberal Protestant intelligentsia who despised Sallman's work and what it represented in popular Christianity. By placing Sallman's art in theological, ecclesiastical, and aesthetic perspective, the book sheds light on the evolving shape of twentieth-century American evangelicalism and its influence on modern American culture.