Saving the Protestant Ethic: Creative Class Evangelicalism and the Crisis of Work

Protestant orientations to work and economics have shaped wider American culture for several centuries. But not all strands of American Protestantism have elevated secular work to the highest echelons of spiritual significance. This book surveys the efforts of a religious movement within white Protestant fundamentalism and its neo-evangelical successors to "make work matter to God."

Today, bearing the name the "faith and work movement," this effort puts on display the creative capacities of ...