Book ID: CBB531085905

The Blessings of Business: How Corporations Shaped Conservative Christianity (2016)

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Grem, Darren E. (Author)


Oxford University Press


Publication Date: 2016
Physical Details: xiii + 282 pp., illustrations
Language: English

Tells the largely forgotten story of the historical ties between conservative Protestants and corporate America; shows how business executives have been crucial to the growth of modern evangelicalism; explains how evangelicals attached their social and religious aspirations to American corporate culture and the private sector." (Publisher)

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Review Darren Dochuk (Spring 2017) Review of "The Blessings of Business: How Corporations Shaped Conservative Christianity". Business History Review (pp. 189-191). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Thomas J. Dorich
Brian R. Cheffins
Vaca, Daniel
Schmiesing, Kevin E.
Whittington, Richard
Nicholas Lehmann
Journals
Business History Review
Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte
Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy
Publishers
Oxford University Press
Lexington Books
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Presses de Sciences Po, Impr. Corlet
Liveright Publishing Corporation A Division of W.W. Norton and Company
Concepts
Business history
Corporations
Business enterprises
Religion
Corporation law
Evangelicalism (Christianity)
People
Adolph A. Berle
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century, early
19th century
Places
United States
Netherlands
Germany
Europe
Great Britain
Ghana
Institutions
Hobby Lobby (Firm)
Morgan Stanley
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