Religion and the marketplace in the United States /

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Group Author: Goff, Philip (Editor); Santoro, Anthony (Editor); Silliman, Daniel (Editor); Junker, Detlef (Editor); Stievermann, Jan (Editor)
Published: Oxford University Press,
Publisher Address: Oxford :
Publication Dates: [2015]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Carrier Form: xii, 295 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780199361793
0199361797
9780199361809
0199361800
Index Number: BL2525
CLC: B928.712-05
Call Number: B928.712-05/R382
Contents: Why are Americans so religious? : the limitations of market explanations /
Weber and eighteenth-century religious developments in America /
Billy Graham, Christian manliness, and the shaping of the evangelical subculture /
Money matters and family matters : James Dobson and Focus on the Family on the traditional family and capitalist America /
The commodification of William James : the book business and the rise of liberal spirituality in the twentieth-century United States /
Literature and the economy of the sacred /
Publishers and profit motives : the economic history of Left behind /
Selling infinite selves : youth culture and contemporary festivals /
Religious branding and the quest to meet consumer needs : Joel Osteen's "Message of hope" /
Unsilent partners : sports stadiums and their appropriation and use of sacred space /
Considering the neoliberal in American religion /