Religion and the marketplace in the United States / edited by Jan Stievermann, Philip Goff, and Detlef Junker associate editors, Anthony Santoro and Daniel Silliman.


Oxford New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
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Notes:

  • 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 Løvdal 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 / Günter 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.

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