Glorious Riches | BackStory with the American History Guys

Glorious Riches

Published: 10/4/2010 Tags: american history, christianity, economic history, financial crisis, religion, religious history

The following audio clip is excerpted from the BackStory episode “Panic!: A History of Financial Crisis.” You can listen to the entire episode here.

Historian Scott Nelson outlines the eerie similarities between 1873 and 2008, and explains how Christian fundamentalism is rooted in financial collapse.

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Excerpted from: Panic!: A History of Financial Crisis

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