Upton Sinclair

The Profits of Religion (eBook, ePUB)

"The first thing brought forth by the study of any religion, ancient or modern, is that it is based upon Fear, born of it, fed by it - and that it cultivates the source from which its nourishment is derived."

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Upton Sinclair is a very prolific American writer and novelist of the early twentieth century. His major fictional work is The Jungle which was first published in serial form in a socialist newspaper. It made of Sinclair an established author when it was released in a single volume in 1906. Sinclair's works are often interested in social reform as well as in unveiling corruption and criticizing injustice in American institutions. Hoping to put his reformatory ideas into practice, he unsuccessfully ran more than once for membership of the US Congress and for the governorship of California. His The Profits of Religion (1917) comes as part of series of non-fictional books that he devoted to the criticism of American institutions including religion, journalism and education. It deals with the American religious movements that flourished prior to World War I, accusing them of manipulating the masses for pecuniary ends. For Sinclair, organized religion is a "source of income to parasites, and the natural ally of every form of oppression and exploitation." The book draws a very negative image of churchmen in general, accusing them of hypocrisy, bigotry and cheating. Sinclair believes that the numerous denominations mushrooming in America are blatantly unfaithful to the true message of Jesus Christ. He does not spare the Catholic Church, though, and accuses it of making use of charity for its own interests.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Copyright Group
• Seitenzahl: 157
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781780007502
• Artikelnr.: 39496135

Autorenporträt

Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. was an American author, sleuth, political organizer, and writer who was born September 20, 1878, and died November 25, 1968. He was the Democratic Party's candidate for governor of California in 1934. He put together almost 100 books and other types of writing. In the first half of the 20th century, Sinclair's writing was well-known and liked. In 1943, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Sinclair became famous in 1906 for his classic muck-raking novel, The Jungle. This book showed how dirty and unsafe the U.S. meatpacking industry was, which caused a public uproar that helped pass the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act a few months later. He wrote a dirty book about American journalism called "The Brass Check" in 1919. It brought attention to the problem of "yellow journalism" and the limits of the "free press" in the US. Henry Ford's rise to power, including his "wage reform" and the Sociological Department at his company, is told in The Flivver King. It also talks about Ford's fall into antisemitism as editor of The Dearborn Independent. In the coal fields of Colorado, King Coal talks to John D. Rockefeller Jr. about his part in the Ludlow Massacre the year before.