Religion, Art, and Money: Episcopalians and American Culture from the Civil War to the Great Depression

by Peter W. Williams

Book Overview

This cultural history of mainline Protestantism and American cities--most notably, New York City--focuses on wealthy, urban Episcopalians and the influential ways they used their money. Peter W. Williams argues that such Episcopalians, many of them the country's most successful industrialists and financiers, left a deep and lasting mark on American urban culture. Their sense of public responsibility derived from a sacramental theology that gave credit...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469626977
• ISBN13: 9781469626970
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.4"