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What is More than Toil about?

## Abstract This chapter introduces the American evangelical faith and work movement. Beginning in the mid-century decades, American evangelicals began pouring resources and energies into organizations and efforts that could confer meaning on secular work. A review of books published through this era reveals a growing worry about the secular world of “Monday,” a term that represents larger anxieties of the economic realm. A sociological analysis suggests that this concern was a product of changing social-institutional dynamics that shaped the lifeworlds of conservative evangelicalism. The result of these shifts was a constituency of conservative religious adherents operating at the intersection of two highly demanding meaning systems: a conservative religious framework demanding whole-life devotion and a careerist-based orientation to high-status work also making demands on energy and identity. The faith and work movement is presented as a means of negotiating American evangelicalism’s entry into these work-intensive, career-centric spaces, a space the author labels “creative-class capitalism.”

Author

Andrew Lynn (Reverend)

Publisher

Oxford University PressNew York

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9780190066680