Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on April 9, 2008
Enterprise and Society 2008 9(2):390-391; doi:10.1093/es/khn027
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oupjournals.org.
James Hudnut-Beumler. In Pursuit of the Almighty's Dollar: A History of Money and American Protestantism
Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xviii + 267 pp. ISBN 0-8078-3079-6, $29.95 (cloth)
| The first 10% of the full text of this article appears below. |
James Hudnut-Beumler has pointed the study of American religious history in an important direction, one that has seen very little travel by scholars in this field. This book takes one familiar defining moment in American history—the disestablishment of Christianity in the era of the early republic and the ensuing voluntarist religious culture that replaced it—and follows its effects in an unfamiliar but fruitful way. The book is structured along thematic chapters that are also basically sequenced chronologically. His research
Drew University