Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon
Subtitle: Northern Christians and Market Capitalism, 1815-1860
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: May 15, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780226137063
Subjects: Christianity - History - General; Economic History; United States - 19th Century; Religion / Church History; Religion; Religion - Church History
Description: The Bible told antebellum Christians that they could not serve both God and Mammon, but in the midst of the market revolution of the 19th century, most of them held on to their faith while simultaneously working furiously to make a place for themselves in a changing economic climate. Davenport examines this paradoxical partnership.