The Power of Mammon - Johnson, Curtis D
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"Curtis D. Johnson argues that the values and attractions of the market revolution triggered changes in congregational life that secularized New York State Baptist congregations in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The market and associated forces, such as media, politics, individualism, and consumerism, affected Baptist belief and behavior so that, after a century of change, Baptist congregations were far weaker institutions than they had been earlier. The Baptist experience suggests that the seeds of religion's fading influence in contemporary America were actually sown two hundred years ago"--…mehr

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"Curtis D. Johnson argues that the values and attractions of the market revolution triggered changes in congregational life that secularized New York State Baptist congregations in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The market and associated forces, such as media, politics, individualism, and consumerism, affected Baptist belief and behavior so that, after a century of change, Baptist congregations were far weaker institutions than they had been earlier. The Baptist experience suggests that the seeds of religion's fading influence in contemporary America were actually sown two hundred years ago"--
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CURTIS D. JOHNSON is professor of history at Mount St. Mary's University, Emmitsburg, Maryland. He is the author of Islands of Holiness: Rural Religion in Upstate New York, 1790-1860 and Redeeming America: Evangelicals and the Road to Civil War.