Corporate spirit: religion and the rise of the modern corporation 1st Amanda Porterfield

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0199372659
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0199372652
• Author(s): Amanda Porterfield

In this groundbreaking work, Amanda Porterfield explores the long intertwining of religion and commerce in the history of incorporation in the United States. Beginning with the antecedents of that history in western Europe, she focuses on organizations to show how corporate strategies in religion and commerce developed symbiotically, and how religion has influenced the corporate structuring and commercial orientation of American society.

Porterfield begins her story in ancient Rome. She traces the development of corporate organization through medieval Europe and Elizabethan England and then to colonial North America, where organizational practices derived from religion infiltrated commerce, and commerce led to political independence. Left more to their own devices than under British law, religious groups in the United States experienced unprecedented autonomy that facilitated new forms of communal governance and new means of broadcasting their messages. As commercial enterprise expanded, religious organizations grew apace, helping many Americans absorb the shocks of economic turbulence, and promoting new conceptions of faith, spirit, and will power that contributed to business.

Table contents:

Introduction
Part One: Corporate Organization in Roman Antiquity and Medieval Europe
1. Founding Visions: The Ancient Roots of Corporate Organization
2. “So Poignant a Memory of the Past”: Corporate Accountability in Medieval Christendom
3. “We Need Not See the Church with the Eyes”: Corporate Presence in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Part Two: Corporate Organization in America
4. “The Hearty Hand of Friendship”: New Men and Corporate Enterprise in British America
5. Sanctifying Contracts and Persons: Corporate Organization in America’s “Infant Republics”
6. “The Real Nature and Spirit of Our Lives”: The Evolution of Corporate Personality, 1865–1920
7. “The Very Heart and Soul and Spirit of Our National Will”: Promoting the Corporate Dream, 1920–1980
8. Between Faith and Delusion: Corporate Credit After 1980
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Index

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