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Religion and the Marketplace in the United States
Taschenbuch von Jan Stievermann
Sprache: Englisch

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This collection of essays focuses on the diverse interactions between religious and commercial practices in U.S. history. Studying religion and the marketplace from various angles, each chapter offers insights into a long and intimate relationship between two aspects of American culture.
This collection of essays focuses on the diverse interactions between religious and commercial practices in U.S. history. Studying religion and the marketplace from various angles, each chapter offers insights into a long and intimate relationship between two aspects of American culture.
Über den Autor
Jan Stievermann is Professor of the History of Christianity in North America at the University of Heidelberg. He has written on a broad range of topics in the fields of American religious history and American literature, including articles for Early American Literature, William and Mary Quarterly, and Church History. His book Der Sündenfall der Nachahmung: Zum Problem der Mittelbarkeit im Werk Ralph Waldo Emersons (2007

The Original Fall of Imitation: The Problem of Mediacy in the Works of R.W.E.) is a comprehensive study of the co-evolution of Emerson's religious and aesthetic thought. Together with Reiner Smolinski, he edited Cotton Mather and Biblia Americana-America's First Bible Commentary (2010).

Philip Goff is Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture and Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies at Indiana University Indianapolis. The author or editor of over thirty volumes and nearly 200 articles or papers on religion in North America, he has since 2000 been co-editor of Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation. His most recent edited volume, with Brian Steensland, is The New Evangelical Social Engagement (2013).

Detlef Junker is the Founding Director of the Heidelberg Center for American Studies, a former Director of the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C. (1991 - 1994) and a former Curt Engelhorn Chair in American History at Heidelberg University. He has published and edited books on American History, Transatlantic Relations, German History and on Theory of History in English and in German.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Acknowledgments

  • Contributors

  • General Introduction - Jan Stievermann, Daniel Silliman, and Philip Goff

  • PART ONE: Reassessment

  • 1. Why Are Americans So Religious? The Limitations of Market Explanations - E. Brooks Holifield

  • PART TWO: Evangelicals and Markets

  • 2. Weber and Eighteenth-Century Religious Developments in America - Mark Valeri

  • 3. Billy Graham, Christian Manliness, and the Shaping of the Evangelical Subculture - Grant Wacker

  • 4. Money Matters and Family Matters: James Dobson and Focus on the Family on the Traditional Family and Capitalist America - Hilde Løvdal

  • PART THREE: Religious Book Markets

  • 5. The Commodification of William James: The Book Business and the Rise of Liberal Spirituality in the Twentieth-Century United States - Matthew Hedstrom

  • 6. Literature and the Economy of the Sacred - Günter Leypoldt

  • 7. Publishers and Profit Motives: The Economic History of Left Behind - Daniel Silliman

  • PART FOUR: Religious Resistance and Adaptation to the Market

  • 8. Selling Infinite Selves: Youth Culture and Contemporary Festivals - Sarah Pike

  • 9. Religious Branding and the Quest to Meet Consumer Needs: Joel Osteen's "Message of Hope" - Katja Rakow

  • 10. Unsilent Partners: Sports Stadiums and their Appropriation and Use of Sacred Space - Anthony Santoro

  • PART FIVE: Critical Reflection and Prospect

  • 11. Considering the Neoliberal in American Religion - Kathryn Lofton

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Religion & Theologie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780199361809
ISBN-10: 0199361800
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Stievermann, Jan
Hersteller: OUP US
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Books on Demand GmbH, In de Tarpen 42, D-22848 Norderstedt, info@bod.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Jan Stievermann
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.02.2015
Gewicht: 0,53 kg
Artikel-ID: 120664921
Über den Autor
Jan Stievermann is Professor of the History of Christianity in North America at the University of Heidelberg. He has written on a broad range of topics in the fields of American religious history and American literature, including articles for Early American Literature, William and Mary Quarterly, and Church History. His book Der Sündenfall der Nachahmung: Zum Problem der Mittelbarkeit im Werk Ralph Waldo Emersons (2007

The Original Fall of Imitation: The Problem of Mediacy in the Works of R.W.E.) is a comprehensive study of the co-evolution of Emerson's religious and aesthetic thought. Together with Reiner Smolinski, he edited Cotton Mather and Biblia Americana-America's First Bible Commentary (2010).

Philip Goff is Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture and Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies at Indiana University Indianapolis. The author or editor of over thirty volumes and nearly 200 articles or papers on religion in North America, he has since 2000 been co-editor of Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation. His most recent edited volume, with Brian Steensland, is The New Evangelical Social Engagement (2013).

Detlef Junker is the Founding Director of the Heidelberg Center for American Studies, a former Director of the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C. (1991 - 1994) and a former Curt Engelhorn Chair in American History at Heidelberg University. He has published and edited books on American History, Transatlantic Relations, German History and on Theory of History in English and in German.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Acknowledgments

  • Contributors

  • General Introduction - Jan Stievermann, Daniel Silliman, and Philip Goff

  • PART ONE: Reassessment

  • 1. Why Are Americans So Religious? The Limitations of Market Explanations - E. Brooks Holifield

  • PART TWO: Evangelicals and Markets

  • 2. Weber and Eighteenth-Century Religious Developments in America - Mark Valeri

  • 3. Billy Graham, Christian Manliness, and the Shaping of the Evangelical Subculture - Grant Wacker

  • 4. Money Matters and Family Matters: James Dobson and Focus on the Family on the Traditional Family and Capitalist America - Hilde Løvdal

  • PART THREE: Religious Book Markets

  • 5. The Commodification of William James: The Book Business and the Rise of Liberal Spirituality in the Twentieth-Century United States - Matthew Hedstrom

  • 6. Literature and the Economy of the Sacred - Günter Leypoldt

  • 7. Publishers and Profit Motives: The Economic History of Left Behind - Daniel Silliman

  • PART FOUR: Religious Resistance and Adaptation to the Market

  • 8. Selling Infinite Selves: Youth Culture and Contemporary Festivals - Sarah Pike

  • 9. Religious Branding and the Quest to Meet Consumer Needs: Joel Osteen's "Message of Hope" - Katja Rakow

  • 10. Unsilent Partners: Sports Stadiums and their Appropriation and Use of Sacred Space - Anthony Santoro

  • PART FIVE: Critical Reflection and Prospect

  • 11. Considering the Neoliberal in American Religion - Kathryn Lofton

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Religion & Theologie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780199361809
ISBN-10: 0199361800
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Stievermann, Jan
Hersteller: OUP US
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Books on Demand GmbH, In de Tarpen 42, D-22848 Norderstedt, info@bod.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Jan Stievermann
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.02.2015
Gewicht: 0,53 kg
Artikel-ID: 120664921
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