| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.4

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More Money, More Ministry: Money and Evangelicals in Recent North American History. Ed. by Larry Eskridge and Mark A. Noll. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000. x, 429 pp. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 0-8028-4777-3.)

From the time Christ chased the money changers out of the temple to recent televangelist scandals, spirituality has struggled with materialism. In this collection of essays, seventeen scholars (including nine historians and three others with expertise in economics) discuss evangelicals and money, with half of the sixteen essays examining different aspects of funding for organizations. Only one chapter deals substantially with consumerism and only one looks exclusively at women. 1

Eight essays cover the period since 1945, four treat the turn of the century, and others focus on segments from the late nineteenth century to the present. The United States is the center of attention; only two essays discuss Canada. The quality of the scholarship is consistently strong. Definitions of evangelicalism are appropriately complex. Like any anthology, this work has the challenge of speaking with one voice. The editors and the authors achieve that with recurring themes. . . .

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