Amanda Porterfield is Robert A. Spivey Professor of Religion at the Florida State University. She is the author of Healing in the History of Christianity and the co-editor of The Business Turn in American Religious History (with Darren Grem and John Corrigan).

Porterfield's book is readable in the best sense of the word. Given its impressive scope, it necessarily skims over a number of historical themes. However, her prose is judicious and her conclusions are reasoned and measured. This is an exceptional book.

• Acknowledgements Introduction Part One: Corporate Organization in Roman Antiquity and Medieval Europe Chapter OneFounding Visions: The Ancient Roots of Corporate Organization Chapter Two"So poignant a memory of the past": Corporate Accountability in Medieval Christendom Chapter Three"We need not see the church with the eyes": Corporate Presence in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe Part Two: Corporate Organization in America Chapter Four"The hearty hand of friendship": New Men and Corporate Enterprise in British America Chapter FiveSanctifying Contracts and Persons:Corporate Expansion in America's "infant republics" Chapter Six"The real nature and Spirit of our lives": The Evolution of Corporate Personality, 1865-1920 Chapter Seven"The very heart and soul and spirit of our national will": Promoting the Corporate Dream, 1920-1980 Chapter EightBetween Faith and Delusion:Corporate Credit after 1980 Epilogue

Amanda Porterfield is Robert A. Spivey Professor of Religion at the Florida State University. She is the author of Healing in the History of Christianity and the co-editor of The Business Turn in American Religious History (with Darren Grem and John Corrigan).

Porterfield's book is readable in the best sense of the word. Given its impressive scope, it necessarily skims over a number of historical themes. However, her prose is judicious and her conclusions are reasoned and measured. This is an exceptional book.

• Acknowledgements Introduction Part One: Corporate Organization in Roman Antiquity and Medieval Europe Chapter OneFounding Visions: The Ancient Roots of Corporate Organization Chapter Two"So poignant a memory of the past": Corporate Accountability in Medieval Christendom Chapter Three"We need not see the church with the eyes": Corporate Presence in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe Part Two: Corporate Organization in America Chapter Four"The hearty hand of friendship": New Men and Corporate Enterprise in British America Chapter FiveSanctifying Contracts and Persons:Corporate Expansion in America's "infant republics" Chapter Six"The real nature and Spirit of our lives": The Evolution of Corporate Personality, 1865-1920 Chapter Seven"The very heart and soul and spirit of our national will": Promoting the Corporate Dream, 1920-1980 Chapter EightBetween Faith and Delusion:Corporate Credit after 1980 Epilogue

Amanda Porterfield is Robert A. Spivey Professor of Religion at the Florida State University. She is the author of Healing in the History of Christianity and the co-editor of The Business Turn in American Religious History (with Darren Grem and John Corrigan).

Porterfield's book is readable in the best sense of the word. Given its impressive scope, it necessarily skims over a number of historical themes. However, her prose is judicious and her conclusions are reasoned and measured. This is an exceptional book.

• Acknowledgements Introduction Part One: Corporate Organization in Roman Antiquity and Medieval Europe Chapter OneFounding Visions: The Ancient Roots of Corporate Organization Chapter Two"So poignant a memory of the past": Corporate Accountability in Medieval Christendom Chapter Three"We need not see the church with the eyes": Corporate Presence in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe Part Two: Corporate Organization in America Chapter Four"The hearty hand of friendship": New Men and Corporate Enterprise in British America Chapter FiveSanctifying Contracts and Persons:Corporate Expansion in America's "infant republics" Chapter Six"The real nature and Spirit of our lives": The Evolution of Corporate Personality, 1865-1920 Chapter Seven"The very heart and soul and spirit of our national will": Promoting the Corporate Dream, 1920-1980 Chapter EightBetween Faith and Delusion:Corporate Credit after 1980 Epilogue