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

Publication Info. Urbana, Chicago : University of Illinois Press, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource (273 pages).
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Series The Working Class in American History
Working class in American history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject United States -- Church history.
United States.
Church history.
Work -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Work -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Labor -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Labor -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Working class -- Religious life.
Working class -- Religious life.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Church history.
Added Author Cantwell, Christopher D., 1980- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Pew and the picket line. Urbana, Chicago : University of Illinois Press, 2016 (DLC) 2015029049
ISBN 9780252098178 (electronic book)
025209817X (electronic book)
0252039998
9780252039997
025208148X
9780252081484
9780252081484 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780252039997