Andrew Ball is Editorial Assistant for the journal Communications in Mathematical Physics, based at Harvard University, USA.

• Introduction: A New Theory of the SacredChapter 1The Boiled-Over District: Effervescence and Adaptation During the Market RevolutionChapter 2The Salvific Power of Affect: Sentimentalism in the Labor Fiction of Rebecca Harding Davis and Elizabeth Stuart PhelpsChapter 3The American Fetish: Religious Economics in the Novels of William Dean HowellsChapter 4Mistaking “Shadows for Gods”: Class and the Christ Novel in the Progressive Era Chapter 5“Christianity Incorporated”: Sinclair Lewis and the Taylorization of American ProtestantismChapter 6Gastonia Revisited: Religion, Literature, and the Loray Mill Strike of 1929Chapter 7“The blackness of God”: Race and Religion in the Literature of the Harlem RenaissanceList of Figures Acknowledgements

Andrew Ball is Editorial Assistant for the journal Communications in Mathematical Physics, based at Harvard University, USA.

• Introduction: A New Theory of the SacredChapter 1The Boiled-Over District: Effervescence and Adaptation During the Market RevolutionChapter 2The Salvific Power of Affect: Sentimentalism in the Labor Fiction of Rebecca Harding Davis and Elizabeth Stuart PhelpsChapter 3The American Fetish: Religious Economics in the Novels of William Dean HowellsChapter 4Mistaking “Shadows for Gods”: Class and the Christ Novel in the Progressive Era Chapter 5“Christianity Incorporated”: Sinclair Lewis and the Taylorization of American ProtestantismChapter 6Gastonia Revisited: Religion, Literature, and the Loray Mill Strike of 1929Chapter 7“The blackness of God”: Race and Religion in the Literature of the Harlem RenaissanceList of Figures Acknowledgements

Andrew Ball is Editorial Assistant for the journal Communications in Mathematical Physics, based at Harvard University, USA.

• Introduction: A New Theory of the SacredChapter 1The Boiled-Over District: Effervescence and Adaptation During the Market RevolutionChapter 2The Salvific Power of Affect: Sentimentalism in the Labor Fiction of Rebecca Harding Davis and Elizabeth Stuart PhelpsChapter 3The American Fetish: Religious Economics in the Novels of William Dean HowellsChapter 4Mistaking “Shadows for Gods”: Class and the Christ Novel in the Progressive Era Chapter 5“Christianity Incorporated”: Sinclair Lewis and the Taylorization of American ProtestantismChapter 6Gastonia Revisited: Religion, Literature, and the Loray Mill Strike of 1929Chapter 7“The blackness of God”: Race and Religion in the Literature of the Harlem RenaissanceList of Figures Acknowledgements