Capitalism and Christianity, American Style by William E. Connolly

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Capitalism and Christianity, American Style is William E. Connolly's urgent call for the democratic left to counter the conservative stranglehold over American religious and economic culture in order to put egalitarianism and ecological integrity on the political agenda. An eminent political theorist known for his work on identity, secularism, and pluralism, Connolly charts the path of the "evangelical-capitalist resonance machine," source of a bellicose ethos that reverberates through contemporary institutional life. He argues that the vengeful vision of the Second Coming motivating a segment of the evangelical right resonates with the ethos of greed animating the cowboy sector of American capitalism. The resulting evangelical-capitalist ethos finds expression in church pulpits, Fox News reports, the best-selling Left Behind novels, consumption practices, investment priorities, and state policies. These practices resonate together to diminish diversity, forestall responsibility to future generations, ignore urban poverty, and support a system of extensive economic inequality. In Capitalism and Christianity, American Style, Connolly describes how the evangelical-capitalist machine works, how its themes resound across class lines, how it infiltrates numerous aspects of American life, and how it might be opposed and overcome.

About the Author:
William E. Connolly is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University

Product Details

• ISBN: 0822342723
  
• ISBN-13: 9780822342724
• Format: Paperback, 174pp
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Pub. Date: April 2008
• Sales Rank: 157,437

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