Religion and the marketplace in the United States /
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Reassessment. Why are Americans so religious? : the limitations of market explanations / E. Brooks Holifield
- Part 2. Evangelicals and markets. Weber and eighteenth-century religious developments in America / Mark Valeri
- Billy Graham, Christian manliness, and the shaping of the evangelical subculture / Grant Wacker
- Money matters and family matters : James Dobson and Focus on the Family on the traditional family and capitalist America / Hilde Løvdal Stephens
- Part 3. Religious book markets. The commodification of William James : the book business and the rise of liberal spirituality in the twentieth-century United States / Matthew S. Hedstrom
- Literature and the economy of the sacred / Günter Leypoldt
- Publishers and profit motives : the economic history of Left behind / Daniel Silliman
- Part 4. Religious resistance and adaptation to the market. Selling infinite selves : youth culture and contemporary festivals / Sarah M. Pike
- Religious branding and the quest to meet consumer needs : Joel Osteen's "Message of hope" / Katja Rakow
- Unsilent partners : sports stadiums and their appropriation and use of sacred space / Anthony Santoro
- Part 5. Critical reflection and prospects. Considering the neoliberal in American religion / Kathryn Lofton.