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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.
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.
Innovative essays on how faith and capitalism have shaped one-another in the United States
Christopher D. Cantwell is an assistant professor of public history and religious studies at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Heath W. Carter is an assistant professor of history at Valparaiso University. Janine Giordano Drake is an assistant professor of history at the University of Great Falls.
"This is an important collection of essays that for all its many
strengths certainly represents only the beginning of what in the
coming years promises to be a flood of books on labor and
religion."--Labor: Studies in Working-Class History
"Taken as a whole, the articles provide a rich sense of
possibilities inherent in the cross-fertilization of labor and
religious histories. For the social and cultural historian as well,
this is a collection well worth reading."--Journal of American
History
"The Pew and the Picket Line is an example of a collection done
right. With an outstanding introductory essay on the historiography
of religion and labor by Cantwell, Carter, and Drake, along with
cutting-edge research throughout the rest of the book, this
collection should be essential reading for historians of American
religion and labor."--Annals of Iowa
“With this diverse collection of essays, Cantwell, Carter, and
Drake admirably succeed in merging the histories of religion and
the working class. Without exception the work is sharply focused
and impeccably researched.”—History News Network
"Together, the excellent scholars highlight the exciting
possibilities and future studies of the histories of religions and
labor in the US. This book covers wide ground temporally,
geographically, methodologically, and theoretically. For the study
of both US Christianities and US Capitalisms, this is a must
read... Highly recommended."--Choice
"The Pew and the Picket Line is a useful addition to the recent
literature that seeks to examine the historical interplay of
religion and labor. What distinguishes this book from some others
in the field is its focus on the working class itself--those in the
pew--rather than leadership. The contributors' willingness to
engage seriously with the religious beliefs of their subjects is to
be commended, as well as their attention to race, gender,
ethnicity, class, place, and denomination."--Labour/ Le Travail
"Readers of all stripes will be pleased with the collection
assembled by Cantwell, Carter, and Drake. Its essays are a valuable
addition to the canon."--Fides et Historia
"These essays are a welcome addition to a burgeoning field of
research. They are a wonderful starting point for examining that
what happens between the pew and the picket line often occurs more
so in the hearts of believers than in the precepts of religious
leaders." --Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society
"This is a terrific collection. In treating the religious
commitments of American working people seriously, it offers a more
holistic perspective of these men and women that reflects their
very humanity." --Nick Salvatore, author of Eugene V. Debs: Citizen
and Socialist
"Fully attentive to the historical scholarship and political theory
upon which the volume’s scholarship builds, Cantwell, Carter, and
Drake also take the necessary steps in their historiographical
introduction to reopen all questions about how work, race, gender,
ethnicity, region, and religion have intersected in the American
past, and to suggest provocative new ones. The richly textured
historical case studies that follow more than fulfill the agenda
the editors set. This is a superb work of collective history by
some of the most creative younger historians working on the subject
today."--Robert Orsi, author of The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith
and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880–1950
"The coeditors have assembled a tremendous and diverse team for
this volume. Each essay is by itself a significant contribution,
and some provide brilliant and pioneering analysis and the
introduction is definitely the best historiographical overview,
survey, and analysis of scholarship in the field that I have ever
read. It sets the standard for the next generation of
scholarship."--Paul Harvey, coauthor of The Color of Christ: The
Son of God and the Saga of Race in America
"Navigating a wide spectrum of time and workspaces, racial and
ethnic expressions, and blue-collar gospels, this brilliantly
conceived and superbly executed volume demands that historians
shift their gaze from the much examined corporate to
under-scrutinized labor side of modern American Christianity and
capitalism. Fifty years after its delivery, Herbert Gutman's plea
for historians to take seriously the authentic and empowering
qualities of working-class belief has finally been addressed, head
on, with critical empathy and care, in an accessible manner. This
is a timely and significant scholarly intervention." --Darren
Dochuk, author of From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-folk Religion,
Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism
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