Title
The Pew and the Picket Line: Christianity and the American Working Class
Document Type
Book
Publication Date
3-2016
Abstract
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 established 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.
Recommended Citation
Cantwell, C.D., Carter H.W., and Giordano J.D. (Eds.). (2016). The Pew and the Picket Line: Christianity and the American Working Class. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
