Sarah Ruth Hammond
Darren Dochuk (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780226509778
- eISBN:
- 9780226509808
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226509808.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, History of Religion
God’s Businessmen: Entrepreneurial Evangelicals in Depression and War chronicles the lives, businesses, and ministries of several Christian corporate leaders, whose religious and political activism ...
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God’s Businessmen: Entrepreneurial Evangelicals in Depression and War chronicles the lives, businesses, and ministries of several Christian corporate leaders, whose religious and political activism between the 1920s and 1940s laid the foundations of the modern religious right. Challenging prevailing scholarly opinion that evangelicals—“fundamentalists,” as they were known then—remained apolitical and otherworldly in the Interwar period, this book carefully outlines how Christian businessmen such as R.G. LeTourneau and Herbert J. Taylor, leading figures in this account, grappled with the expanding federal state under the New Deal and during World War II. While on their factory floors and in their boardrooms they folded evangelical principles into manufacturing and managerial strategies, in their church spheres they financed evangelical causes and pushed clergy to tap laymen’s proselytizing energy. At the same time, they brought their conservative theology to bear on critical political issues such as taxation, government regulation, labor unions and workers rights, and the challenge, as they saw it, to uphold private enterprise against “big government” and the spread of socialist and communist subversion. The ideas and institutions they advanced in this political moment served as a base from which post-World War II religious and political conservatives would spread their gospel.Less
God’s Businessmen: Entrepreneurial Evangelicals in Depression and War chronicles the lives, businesses, and ministries of several Christian corporate leaders, whose religious and political activism between the 1920s and 1940s laid the foundations of the modern religious right. Challenging prevailing scholarly opinion that evangelicals—“fundamentalists,” as they were known then—remained apolitical and otherworldly in the Interwar period, this book carefully outlines how Christian businessmen such as R.G. LeTourneau and Herbert J. Taylor, leading figures in this account, grappled with the expanding federal state under the New Deal and during World War II. While on their factory floors and in their boardrooms they folded evangelical principles into manufacturing and managerial strategies, in their church spheres they financed evangelical causes and pushed clergy to tap laymen’s proselytizing energy. At the same time, they brought their conservative theology to bear on critical political issues such as taxation, government regulation, labor unions and workers rights, and the challenge, as they saw it, to uphold private enterprise against “big government” and the spread of socialist and communist subversion. The ideas and institutions they advanced in this political moment served as a base from which post-World War II religious and political conservatives would spread their gospel.
Lawrence W. R. Mills
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9789888083985
- eISBN:
- 9789882209084
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888083985.003.0002
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, South and East Asia
This chapter introduces Hong Kong in the aftermath of World War II – a time of upheaval, reconstruction and industrialisation. The author recalls his early years as an executive officer in the ...
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This chapter introduces Hong Kong in the aftermath of World War II – a time of upheaval, reconstruction and industrialisation. The author recalls his early years as an executive officer in the colonial government’s Commerce and Industry Department in the late 1950s. The chapter discusses small-scale industry and entrepreneurialism in the 1950s and 1960s.Less
This chapter introduces Hong Kong in the aftermath of World War II – a time of upheaval, reconstruction and industrialisation. The author recalls his early years as an executive officer in the colonial government’s Commerce and Industry Department in the late 1950s. The chapter discusses small-scale industry and entrepreneurialism in the 1950s and 1960s.
Linda Milbourne
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781847427236
- eISBN:
- 9781447310952
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847427236.003.0007
- Subject:
- Sociology, Politics, Social Movements and Social Change
This chapter considers the recent climate of recession affecting the voluntary sector, seeking to understand both external and internal factors contributing to organisational survival in adverse ...
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This chapter considers the recent climate of recession affecting the voluntary sector, seeking to understand both external and internal factors contributing to organisational survival in adverse circumstances. The chapter draws on case studies of three voluntary sector organisations to explore questions of risk and resilience among survivors and casualties, considering the extent to which compliance and conformity are requisites for survival in this new organisational order. The chapter first explores ideas of risk and resilience, providing a lens through which to consider how organisations can navigate recent changes. Drawing on an analysis of organisational cases, the chapter identifies a typology of entrepreneurs, resisters and accommodators, considering how each of these positions can construct survivors and casualties. Any typology necessarily highlights differences at the expense of similarities but offers a conceptual map for understanding the different ways that voluntary organisations have approached potential threats to survival. It argues that the myths of growth and diversification as protective strategies chime well with policy priorities but may serve voluntary sector interests poorly.Less
This chapter considers the recent climate of recession affecting the voluntary sector, seeking to understand both external and internal factors contributing to organisational survival in adverse circumstances. The chapter draws on case studies of three voluntary sector organisations to explore questions of risk and resilience among survivors and casualties, considering the extent to which compliance and conformity are requisites for survival in this new organisational order. The chapter first explores ideas of risk and resilience, providing a lens through which to consider how organisations can navigate recent changes. Drawing on an analysis of organisational cases, the chapter identifies a typology of entrepreneurs, resisters and accommodators, considering how each of these positions can construct survivors and casualties. Any typology necessarily highlights differences at the expense of similarities but offers a conceptual map for understanding the different ways that voluntary organisations have approached potential threats to survival. It argues that the myths of growth and diversification as protective strategies chime well with policy priorities but may serve voluntary sector interests poorly.
Sarah Ruth Hammond
Darren Dochuk (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780226509778
- eISBN:
- 9780226509808
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226509808.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, History of Religion
Much like George Babbitt, then, Herbert Taylor, R. G. LeTourneau, and their cohort of deep-pocketed powerbrokers faced the disruptions of their day by holding tightly to the conformities, and shared ...
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Much like George Babbitt, then, Herbert Taylor, R. G. LeTourneau, and their cohort of deep-pocketed powerbrokers faced the disruptions of their day by holding tightly to the conformities, and shared faith in Christ and capitalism, that profoundly shaped their church environment between WWI and the Cold War. As in Zenith, so to in Peoria, Chicago, and emerging commercial centers across middle America: these resident corporate evangelicals’ entry into the theological and economic revolutions of the local produced real and lasting political change, and the nation felt (and continues to feel) the effects.Less
Much like George Babbitt, then, Herbert Taylor, R. G. LeTourneau, and their cohort of deep-pocketed powerbrokers faced the disruptions of their day by holding tightly to the conformities, and shared faith in Christ and capitalism, that profoundly shaped their church environment between WWI and the Cold War. As in Zenith, so to in Peoria, Chicago, and emerging commercial centers across middle America: these resident corporate evangelicals’ entry into the theological and economic revolutions of the local produced real and lasting political change, and the nation felt (and continues to feel) the effects.
