Protestantism, capitalism, and nature in America
By: Mark Stoll.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Nature -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.; Human ecology -- Religious aspects -- Protestant churches.; Protestant churches -- United States -- Doctrines.; Capitalism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-266) and index.
Table of contents: title: Protestantism, capitalism, and nature. Beauty and wonder, dominion and stewardship. Capitalists and militants, rationalists and ascetics; title: Protestants, capitalists, and nature. God, nature, and the Puritans. Nature's God in the age of reason. Conquest and contemplation. Steam and steel and Christian civilization. Progressive gospels of nature. The twentieth century.