Saving the Protestant Ethic: Creative Class Evangelicalism and the Crisis of Work Lynn Andrew
Saving the Protestant Ethic: Creative Class Evangelicalism and the Crisis of Work Lynn Andrew Protestant orientations to work and economics have shaped wider American culture for several centuries.…
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Saving the Protestant Ethic: Creative Class Evangelicalism and the Crisis of Work Lynn Andrew
Protestant orientations to work and economics have shaped wider American culture for several centuries. This book surveys the efforts of a religious movement within white Protestant fundamentalism and its neo-evangelical successors to "make work matter to God."Today, bearing the name the "faith and work movement," this effort puts on display the creative capacities of religious and lay leaders to adapt a faith system to the changing social-economic conditions of advanced capitalism. But not all strands of American Protestantism have elevated secular work to the highest echelons of spiritual significance.
Building from the insights and theory of Max Weber, Andrew Lynn draws on archival research and interviews with movement leaders to survey and assess the surging number of new organizations, books, conferences, worship songs, seminary classes, vocational programming, and study