Root of All Evil - Protestant Clergy and the Economic Mind of the Old South

Informationen zum Autor KENNETH MOORE STARTUP is a professor of history and academic dean at Williams Baptist College in Walnut Ridge, Arkansas. Klappentext In The Root of All Evil Kenneth Moore Startup looks to the sermons and writings of Protestant clergy to better understand the driving forces behind the antebellum southern economy. During this period of unprecedented American expansion, he finds, clerics of all denominations on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line displayed a remarkable unanimity in their condemnation of mammonism - the open pursuit of wealth, conspicuous consumption, lack of charity, and contempt of honest labor. This trend, the clergy argued, was diverting both North and South from their best interests and would ultimately destroy the nation. The Root of All Evil represents a challenge to any notion of an economically disinterested southern mind and culture by revealing an Old South in line ideologically with the mainstream of nineteenth-century capitalism, and also provides useful insights into southern religious life. Zusammenfassung Startup looks to the sermons and writings of Protestant clergy to better understand the driving forces behind the antebellum southern economy. He reveals an Old South in line ideologically with the mainstream of nineteenth-century capitalism and also provides useful insights into southern religious life.

Product details

• Authors: Kenneth Startup, Kenneth Moore Startup
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.1997
• EAN: 9780820319056
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-1905-6
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, History - U.S., HISTORY / United States / State & Local / General