Allegories of Progress: Industrial Religion in the United States
Allegories of Progress: Industrial Religion in the United States
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DOI：
10.1093/jaarel/lfp076
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发表时间：
2010-03-01
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0.9
通讯作者：
Seales, Chad E.
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作者：
Callahan, Richard J., Jr.;Lofton, Kathryn;Seales, Chad E.
本文认为，美国新工厂制度和市场文化的出现包含了“工业宗教”的推广。工业宗教是一种将超人类的力量归因于原材料和将这些材料转化为消费品的机械技术的话语。通过对阿巴拉契亚山脉的煤炭生产、南方的工厂监督和东北的肥皂推广的描述，我们考察了工业宗教的三个焦点：物质力量、转化技术和消费文化。我们认为，美国新教改革者和实业家合作使用工业宗教来教化景观、净化身体，并将个人转化为现代劳动和消费的必要学科。工业宗教的小册子、演讲和处方叙述了精神进步的寓言，即使它们定义了物质成功的衡量标准。
This essay argues that the emergence of new factory systems and market cultures in the United States included the promotion of "industrial religion." Industrial religion is a discourse that attributes suprahuman power to raw materials and the mechanical technologies employed to convert those materials into consumer goods. Through descriptions of coal production in the Appalachian Mountains, factory supervision in the South, and soap promotions in the Northeast, we survey three foci of industrial religion: material power, technologies of conversion, and cultures of consumption We argue that American Protestant reformers and industrialists collaborated to use industrial religion in order to civilize landscapes, cleanse bodies, and convert individuals into the requisite disciplines of modern labor and consumption. The pamphlets, speeches, and prescriptions of industrial religion narrated allegories of spiritual progress even as they defined the metrics of material success.