Bibliograph

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

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Label

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The pew and the picket line

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

922970656

Responsibility statement

edited by Christopher D. Cantwell, Heath W. Carter, and Janine Giordano Drake

Series statement

The working class in American history

Sub title

Christianity and the American working class

Summary

"The Pew and the Picket Line collects works from a new generation of scholars working at the nexus where religious history and working-class history converge. Focusing on Christianity and its unique purchase in America, the contributors use in-depth local histories to illustrate how Americans male and female, rural and urban, and from a range of ethnic backgrounds dwelt in a space between the church and the shop floor. Their vivid essays show Pentecostal miners preaching prosperity while seeking miracles in the depths of the earth, while aboveground black sharecroppers and white Protestants established credit unions to pursue a joint vision of cooperative capitalism. Innovative and essential, The Pew and the Picket Line reframes venerable debates as it maps the dynamic contours of a landscape sculpted by the powerful forces of Christianity and capitalism."--Publisher's website

Table Of Contents

Foreword: A spiritual turn? / Ken Fones-Wolf -- Introduction: Between the pew and the picket line / Christopher D. Cantwell, Heath W. Carter, and Janine Giordano Drake -- Part I. Manufacturing Christianity. George Lippard, Ignatius Donnelly, and the esoteric theology of American labor / Dan McKanan -- Catholicism and working-class activism in Providence / Evelyn Sterne -- Faith powers and gambling spirits in late gilded age metal mining / Jarod Roll -- Discovering working-class religion in a 1950s auto plant / Matthew Pehl -- Black power and Black theology in Cairo, Illinois / Kerry L. Pimblott -- Part II. Christianizing capitalism. Emma Tenayuca, religious elites, and the 1938 pecan-shellers' strike / Arlene Sánchez-Walsh -- Radical Christianity and cooperative economics in the postwar South / Alison Collis Greene -- Catholic social policy and resistance to the Bracero Program / Brett Hendrickson -- Black freedom struggles and ecumenical activism in 1960s Chicago / Erik S. Gellman

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