Religion and the Marketplace in the United States

by Anthony Santoro

Alexis de Tocqueville once described the national character of Americans as one question insistently asked: "How much money will it bring in?" G.K. Chesterton, a century later, described America as a "nation with a soul of a church." At first glance, the two observations might appear to be diametrically opposed, but this volume shows the ways in which American religion and American business overlap and interact with one another, defining the US in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199361800
• ISBN13: 9780199361809
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: OUP Us
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"