| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 799 pages) |
| Contents |
About his business -- The god among commodities -- The poetry of the past -- Errand into the marketplace -- The righteous friends of Mammon -- Glows and glories and final illustriousness -- God gave me my money -- The soulful corporation -- Blazers of the one true way -- The spirit of the thing -- Modern communion -- The producers' jeremiad -- The cross is bending -- The priesthood of art -- Another kingdom of being -- Business is the soul of America -- The American century and the magic kingdom -- A new order and creed -- Beauty as the new business tool -- The mysticism of numbers -- Secular prayers and impieties -- Small is beautiful -- Human divinity -- God's in his heaven, all's right with the world -- Machines of loving grace -- The new testament of capitalism -- The statues of Daedalus -- To live instead of making history -- Heaven which exists and is everywhere around us |
| Summary |
Eugene McCarraher challenges the conventional view of capitalism as a force for disenchantment. From Puritan and evangelical valorizations of profit to the heavenly Fordist city, the mystically animated corporation, and the deification of the market, capitalism has hijacked our intrinsic longing for divinity, laying hold to our souls |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Capitalism -- Religious aspects -- History
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Economics -- Religious aspects -- History
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Romanticism.
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romanticism (form of expression)
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HISTORY -- United States -- General.
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Capitalism -- Religious aspects
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Economics -- Religious aspects
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Romanticism
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780674242760 |
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0674242769 |
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9780674242777 |
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0674242777 |
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