Review of Joseph Slaughter, Faith in Markets: Christian Capitalism in the Early American Republic By Devin Singh

Review of Joseph Slaughter, Faith in Markets: Christian Capitalism in the Early American Republic By Devin Singh https://www.academia.edu/165246793/Review_of_Joseph_Slaughter_Faith_in_Markets_Christian_Capitalism_in_the_Early_American_Republic?email_work_card=title In Faith in Markets, Joseph P. Slaughter challenges prevailing approaches to the relationship between religion and capitalism in the early republic. He critiques various reductionist accounts as well as narratives that prioritize broader political forces, seeking instead to restore agency to Christian entrepreneurs as they contributed to the burgeoning market economy of nineteenth-century America. In his telling, their doctrinal convictions and religiously informed communal practices shaped their business strategies and, by extension, wider market dynamics. Rather than depicting Christianity as a reactionary, extrinsic, or superstructural component of American economic life, Slaughter argues that... ...