The Pew and the Picket Line: Christianity and the American Working Class
Heath W Carter and Janine Giordano Drake
Abstract
This book 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 book uses 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. The vivid chapters show Pentecostal miners preaching prosperity while seeking miracles in the depths of the earth, while aboveground black sharecroppers and white Protestants establish credit unions to p ... More
This book 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 book uses 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. The vivid chapters show Pentecostal miners preaching prosperity while seeking miracles in the depths of the earth, while aboveground black sharecroppers and white Protestants establish credit unions to pursue a joint vision of cooperative capitalism. Innovative, the book reframes venerable debates as it maps the dynamic contours of a landscape sculpted by the powerful forces of Christianity and capitalism.
Keywords:
religious history,
working-class history,
Christianity,
capitalism,
Pentecostal,
Protestant
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780252039997 |
| Published to Illinois Scholarship Online: April 2017 |
DOI:10.5406/illinois/9780252039997.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Heath W Carter, editor
University of Missouri at Kansas City
Janine Giordano Drake, editor
University of Great Falls
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