Church and Estate
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Church and Estate

Religion and Wealth in Industrial-Era Philadelphia

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Church and Estate

Religion and Wealth in Industrial-Era Philadelphia

About this book

In Church and Estate, Thomas Rzeznik examines the lives and religious commitments of the Philadelphia elite during the period of industrial prosperity that extended from the late nineteenth century through the 1920s. The book demonstrates how their religious beliefs informed their actions and shaped their class identity, while simultaneously revealing the ways in which financial influences shaped the character of American religious life. In tracing those connections, it shows how religion and wealth shared a fruitful, yet ultimately tenuous, relationship.

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Table of contents

  1. COVER Front
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. List of Illustrations
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction
  7. Notes to Introduction
  8. Chapter 1: “Money Faithfully and Judiciously Expended”
  9. Notes to Chapter 1
  10. Chapter 2: A Controlling “Interest”
  11. Notes to Chapter 2
  12. Chapter 3: A Labor “Exceedingly Magnificent”
  13. Notes to Chapter 3
  14. Chapter 4: The “Quaker-Turned-Episcopal Gentry”
  15. Notes to Chapter 4
  16. Chapter 5: The Episcopal Ascendancy
  17. Notes to Chapter 5
  18. Chapter 6: Confronting the “Money Interests”
  19. Notes to Chapter 6
  20. Chapter 7: Changing Fortunes
  21. Notes to Chapter 7
  22. Conclusion: Legacies
  23. Notes to Conclusion
  24. Notes
  25. Bibliography
  26. Index
  27. COVER Back