Corporate Spirit: Religion and the Rise of the Modern Corporation

by Amanda Porterfield

In this groundbreaking work, Amanda Porterfield explores the long intertwining of religion and commerce in the history of incorporation in the United States. Beginning with the antecedents of that history in western Europe, she focuses on organizations to show how corporate strategies in religion and commerce developed symbiotically, and how religion has influenced the corporate structuring and commercial orientation of American society.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199372659
• ISBN13: 9780199372652
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.3"