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

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 to the material realm as a vehicle fo...