To Serve God and Wal-Mart
October 27, 2012
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6316293-to-serve-god-and-wal-mart To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise by Bethany Moreton In the…
Bethany Moreton
Bethany Moreton, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Yale University, 2006, Bethany Moreton is the author of To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise (Harvard University Press, 2009), which won the 2010 Frederick Jackson Tuner Prize for Best First Book in American History from the Organization of American Historians and the 2010 John Hope Franklin Award for the Best Book in American Studies from the American Studies Association. A Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians, she was named the 2009 Emerging Scholar by the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan and has been a visiting scholar at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Harvard Divinity School. She has published multiple articles and chapters on the intersections between religion and economics and is a series editor for the Columbia University Press's Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism. Selected Publications: "Why Is There So Much Sex in Christian Conservatism and Why Do SO Few Historians Care Anything about It?," Journal of Southern History (August 2009) To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise (Harvard University Press, 2009) Winner of 2010 OAH F. J. Turner Prize [More Info], "Make Payroll, Not War," in Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s, ed. Bruce Schulman and Julian Zelizer (Harvard University Press, 2007) [More Info], "The Soul of Neoliberalism," Social Text (2006) [More Info], "It Came From Bentonville: The Agrarian Origins of Wal-Mart Culture," in Wal-Mart: The Face of Twenty-First Century Capitalism, ed. (New Press, 2006)
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