The pew and the picket line : Christianity and the American working class / edited by Christopher D. Cantwell, Heath W. Carter, and Janine Giordano Drake
Published
Urbana, Chicago : University of Illinois Press, 2016
Cover; Title; Contents; Foreword: A Spiritual Turn?; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Between the Pew and the Picket Line; Part I: Manufacturing Christianity; Part II: Christianizing Capitalism; Contributors; Index; 1 George Lippard, Ignatius Donnelly, and the Esoteric Theology of American Labor Dan McKanan; 2 Catholicism and Working-Class Activism in Providence Evelyn Sterne; 3 Faith Powers and Gambling Spirits in Late Gilded-Age Metal Mining Jarod Roll; 4 Discovering Working-Class Religion in a 1950s Auto Plant Matthew Pehl
5 Black Power and Black Theology in Cairo, Illinois Kerry L. Pimblott6 Emma Tenayuca, Religious Elites, and the 1938 Pecan-Shellers' Strike Arlene Sánchez-Walsh; 7 Radical Christianity and Cooperative Economics in the Postwar South Alison Collis Greene; 8 Catholic Social Policy and Resistance to the Bracero Program Brett Hendrickson; 9 Black Freedom Struggles and Ecumenical Activism in 1960s Chicago Erik S. Gellman
Summary
Innovative essays on how faith and capitalism have shaped one-another in the United States
