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The Pew and the Picket Line: Christianity and the American Working Class - Working Class in American History Christopher D. Cantwell
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The Pew and the Picket Line: Christianity and the American Working Class - Working Class in American History
Christopher D. Cantwell
The Pew and the Picket Line collects works from a new generation of scholars working at the nexus where religious history and working-class history converge. Focusing on Christianity and its unique purchase in America, the contributors use in-depth local histories to illustrate how Americans male and female, rural and urban, and from a range of ethnic backgrounds dwelt in a space between the church and the shop floor. Their vivid essays show Pentecostal miners preaching prosperity while seeking miracles in the depths of the earth, while aboveground black sharecroppers and white Protestants establish credit unions to pursue a joint vision of cooperative capitalism. Innovative and essential, The Pew and the Picket Line reframes venerable debates as it maps the dynamic contours of a landscape sculpted by the powerful forces of Christianity and capitalism. Contributors: Christopher D. Cantwell, Heath W. Carter, Janine Giordano Drake, Ken Fones-Wolf, Erik Gellman, Alison Collis Greene, Brett Hendrickson, Dan McKanan, Matthew Pehl, Kerry L. Pimblott, Jarod Roll, Evelyn Sterne, and Arlene Sanchez Walsh.
280 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | February 11, 2016 |
| ISBN13 | 9780252081484 |
| Publishers | University of Illinois Press |
| Pages | 272 |
| Dimensions | 229 × 154 × 27 mm · 394 g |
| Editor | Cantwell, Christopher D. |
| Editor | Carter, Heath W. |
| Editor | Giordano Drake, Janine |
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