Table of Contents

Introduction: A New Theory of the Sacred Chapter 1 The Boiled-Over District: Effervescence and Adaptation During the Market Revolution Chapter 2 The Salvific Power of Affect: Sentimentalism in the Labor Fiction of Rebecca Harding Davis and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Chapter 3 The American Fetish: Religious Economics in the Novels of William Dean Howells Chapter 4 Mistaking “Shadows for Gods”: Class and the Christ Novel in the Progressive Era Chapter 5 “Christianity Incorporated”: Sinclair Lewis and the Taylorization of American Protestantism Chapter 6 Gastonia Revisited: Religion, Literature, and the Loray Mill Strike of 1929 Chapter 7 “The blackness of God”: Race and Religion in the Literature of the Harlem Renaissance List of Figures Acknowledgements

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This book offers a thorough reassessment of the relationship of religion and economics in American culture.

About the Author

Andrew Ball is Editorial Assistant for the journal Communications in Mathematical Physics, based at Harvard University, USA.