Making money sacred: How two church cultures translate mundane money into distinct sacralized frames of giving

Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 303-326

  Mundey, Peter ^a   Davidson, Hilary ^a   Snell Herzog, Patricia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

congregations; evangelical Protestantism; mainline Protestants; philanthropy

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053461763     PISSN: 10694404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srq080     Document Type: Article

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