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Author : Upton Sinclair
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547010784
The Profits of Religion is a book by Upton Sinclair. Essentially an essay in economic interpretation, it delves into how the church continually makes huge profits in its operations.
Author : Upton Sinclair (Schriftsteller, USA)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Christianity
ISBN : 0404060935
Author : Katherine Carté Engel
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812201857
The Moravians, a Protestant sect founded in 1727 by Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf and based in Germany, were key players in the rise of international evangelicalism. In 1741, after planting communities on the frontiers of empires throughout the Atlantic world, they settled the communitarian enclave of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in order to spread the Gospel to thousands of nearby colonists and Native Americans. In time, the Moravians became some of early America's most successful missionaries. Such vast projects demanded vast sums. Bethlehem's Moravians supported their work through financial savvy and an efficient brand of communalism. Moravian commercial networks, stretching from the Pennsylvania backcountry to Europe's financial capitals, also facilitated their efforts. Missionary outreach and commerce went hand in hand for this group, making it impossible to understand the Moravians' religious work without appreciating their sophisticated economic practices as well. Of course, making money in a manner that be fitted a Christian organization required considerable effort, but it was a balancing act that Moravian leaders embraced with vigor. Religion and Profit traces the Moravians' evolving mission projects, their strategies for supporting those missions, and their gradual integration into the society of eighteenth-century North America. Katherine Carté Engel demonstrates the complex influence Moravian religious life had on the group's economic practices, and argues that the imperial conflict between Euro-Americans and Native Americans, and not the growth of capitalism or a process of secularization, ultimately reconfigured the circumstances of missionary work for the Moravians, altering their religious lives and economic practices.
Author : Katherine Carté Engel,Katherine Carté
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780812221855
Catalysts in the birth of evangelicalism, the Moravians supported their religious projects through financial savvy, a distinctive communalism at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and transatlantic commercial networks. This book traces the Moravians' evolving projects, arguing that imperial war, not capitalism, transformed Moravian religious life.
Author : Lester K. Little
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0801492475
"In this stimulating and important book Lester Little advances the original thesis that, paradoxically, it was the leading practitioners of voluntary poverty, Franciscan and Dominican friars, who finally formulated a Christian ethic which justified the activities of merchants, moneylenders, and other urban professionals, and created a Christian spirituality suitable for townsmen. Little has synthesized a vast body of specialized literature in Italian, German, French, and English to write an interpretive essay which provides a new perspective on the interaction between economic and social forces and the religious movements advocating the apostolic ideal of voluntary poverty...Little's book is a major contribution, not only to the history of the religious movement of voluntary poverty, but also to the interdisciplinary study of the middle ages." --Journal of Social History
Author : Upton Sinclair
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1421980630
Author : Upton Beall Sinclair
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:877478568
Author : Upton Sinclair
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1331407605
Excerpt from The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation This book is a study of Supernaturalism from a new point of view - as a Source of In come and a Shield to Privilege. I have searched the libraries through, and no one has done it before. If you read it, you will see that it needed to be done. It has meant twenty-five years of thought and a year of investigation. It contains the facts. I publish the book myself, so that it may be available at the lowest possible price. I am giving my time and energy, in return for one thing which you may give me - the joy of speaking a true word and getting it heard. The present volume is the first of a series, which will do for Education, Journalism and Literature what has here been done for the Church: the four volumes making a work of revolutionary criticism, an Economic Interpretation of Culture Under the general title of "The Dead Hand." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Yiwen Li
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009303118
Between 839 and 1403 CE, there was a six-century lapse in diplomatic relations between present-day China and Japan. This hiatus in what is known as the tribute system has led to an assumption that there was little contact between the two countries in this period. Yiwen Li debunks this assumption, arguing instead that a vibrant Sino-Japanese trade network flourished in this period as Buddhist monks and merchants fostered connections across maritime East Asia. Based on a close examination of sources in multiple languages, including poems and letters, transmitted images and objects, and archaeological discoveries, Li presents a vivid and dynamic picture of the East Asian maritime world. She shows how this Buddhist trade network operated outside of the framework of the tribute system and, through novel interpretations of Buddhist records, provides a new understanding of the relationship between Buddhism and commerce.
Author : Sinclair Upton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1318822270
Author : Upton Sinclair
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1493760106
Bootstrap-lifting? says the reader. It is a vision I have seen: upon a vast plain, men and women are gathered in dense throngs, crouched in uncomfortable and distressing positions, their fingers hooked in the straps of their boots. They are engaged in lifting themselves; tugging and straining until they grow red in the face, exhausted. The perspiration streams from their foreheads, they show every symptom of distress; the eyes of all are fixed, not upon each other, nor upon their boot-straps, but upon the sky above. There is a look of rapture upon their faces, and now and then, amid grunts and groans, they cry out with excitement and triumph. I approach one and say to him, "Friend, what is this you are doing?" He answers, without pausing to glance at me, "I am performing spiritual exercises. See how I rise?" "But," I say, "you are not rising at all!" Whereat he becomes instantly angry. "You are one of the scoffers!" "But, friend," I protest, "don't you feel the earth under your feet?" "You are a materialist!" "But, friend, I can see-" "You are without spiritual vision!"
Author : Upton Sinclair
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Christianity - Influence, Political and social
ISBN : LCCN:27021548
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1753
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020779896
Author : Upton Upton Sinclair
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1717574114
The Profits of Religion by Upton Sinclair
Author : Daniel Vaca
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780674243972
A new history explores the commercial heart of evangelical Christianity. American evangelicalism is big business. For decades, the world’s largest media conglomerates have sought out evangelical consumers, and evangelical books have regularly become international best sellers. In the early 2000s, Rick Warren’s The Purpose Driven Life spent ninety weeks on the New York Times Best Sellers list and sold more than thirty million copies. But why have evangelicals achieved such remarkable commercial success? According to Daniel Vaca, evangelicalism depends upon commercialism. Tracing the once-humble evangelical book industry’s emergence as a lucrative center of the US book trade, Vaca argues that evangelical Christianity became religiously and politically prominent through business activity. Through areas of commerce such as branding, retailing, marketing, and finance, for-profit media companies have capitalized on the expansive potential of evangelicalism for more than a century. Rather than treat evangelicalism as a type of conservative Protestantism that market forces have commodified and corrupted, Vaca argues that evangelicalism is an expressly commercial religion. Although religious traditions seem to incorporate people who embrace distinct theological ideas and beliefs, Vaca shows, members of contemporary consumer society often participate in religious cultures by engaging commercial products and corporations. By examining the history of companies and corporate conglomerates that have produced and distributed best-selling religious books, bibles, and more, Vaca not only illustrates how evangelical ideas, identities, and alliances have developed through commercial activity but also reveals how the production of evangelical identity became a component of modern capitalism.