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The pew and the picket line : Christianity and the American working class / edited by Christopher D. Cantwell, Heath W. Carter, and Janine Giordano Drake.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Working class in American historyPublication details: Urbana, Chicago : University of Illinois Press, 2016.Description: 1 online resource (273 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780252098178
  • 025209817X
  • 0252039998
  • 9780252039997
  • 025208148X
  • 9780252081484
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Pew and the picket line.DDC classification:
  • 277.3/08208623 23
LOC classification:
  • BR517 .P49 2016
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Cover; Title; Contents; Foreword: A Spiritual Turn?; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Between the Pew and the Picket Line; Part I: Manufacturing Christianity; Part II: Christianizing Capitalism; Contributors; Index; 1 George Lippard, Ignatius Donnelly, and the Esoteric Theology of American Labor Dan McKanan; 2 Catholicism and Working-Class Activism in Providence Evelyn Sterne; 3 Faith Powers and Gambling Spirits in Late Gilded-Age Metal Mining Jarod Roll; 4 Discovering Working-Class Religion in a 1950s Auto Plant Matthew Pehl.
5 Black Power and Black Theology in Cairo, Illinois Kerry L. Pimblott6 Emma Tenayuca, Religious Elites, and the 1938 Pecan-Shellers' Strike Arlene Sánchez-Walsh; 7 Radical Christianity and Cooperative Economics in the Postwar South Alison Collis Greene; 8 Catholic Social Policy and Resistance to the Bracero Program Brett Hendrickson; 9 Black Freedom Struggles and Ecumenical Activism in 1960s Chicago Erik S. Gellman.
Summary: Innovative essays on how faith and capitalism have shaped one-another in the United States.
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Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)1100891

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

Cover; Title; Contents; Foreword: A Spiritual Turn?; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Between the Pew and the Picket Line; Part I: Manufacturing Christianity; Part II: Christianizing Capitalism; Contributors; Index; 1 George Lippard, Ignatius Donnelly, and the Esoteric Theology of American Labor Dan McKanan; 2 Catholicism and Working-Class Activism in Providence Evelyn Sterne; 3 Faith Powers and Gambling Spirits in Late Gilded-Age Metal Mining Jarod Roll; 4 Discovering Working-Class Religion in a 1950s Auto Plant Matthew Pehl.

5 Black Power and Black Theology in Cairo, Illinois Kerry L. Pimblott6 Emma Tenayuca, Religious Elites, and the 1938 Pecan-Shellers' Strike Arlene Sánchez-Walsh; 7 Radical Christianity and Cooperative Economics in the Postwar South Alison Collis Greene; 8 Catholic Social Policy and Resistance to the Bracero Program Brett Hendrickson; 9 Black Freedom Struggles and Ecumenical Activism in 1960s Chicago Erik S. Gellman.

Innovative essays on how faith and capitalism have shaped one-another in the United States.