Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon: Northern Christians and Market Capitalism, 1815-1860
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Description
What did Protestants in America think about capitalism when capitalism was first something to be thought about? The Bible told antebellum Christians that they could not serve both God and mammon, but in the midst of the market revolution most of them simultaneously held on to their faith while working furiously to make a place for themselves in a changing economic landscape. In Friends of the Unrighteous Mammom, Stewart Davenport explores this paradoxical partnership of transcendent religious values and earthly, pragmatic objectives, ultimately concluding that religious and ethical commitments, rather than political or social forces, shaped responses to market capitalism in the northern states in the antebellum period. - Publisher.
ISBN
9780226137063, 0226137066
Publication Date
2008
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
City
Chicago
Keywords
Capitalism, Church History, Religious Aspects, Christianity
Disciplines
Religion
Recommended Citation
Davenport, Stewart, "Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon: Northern Christians and Market Capitalism, 1815-1860" (2008). Faculty Books. 189.
https://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/facultybooks/189