In Pursuit of the Almighty's Dollar

Every day of the week in contemporary America (and especially on Sundays) people raise money for their religious enterprises — for clergy, educators, buildings, charity, youth-oriented work, and more. In a fascinating look into the economics of American Protestantism, James Hudnut-Beumler examines how churches have raised and spent money from colonial times to the present and considers what these practices say about both religion and American culture. After the constitutional separation of churc