An Essay in Economic Interpretation
By Upton Sinclair
THE PROFITS OF RELIGION
OFFERTORY
INTRODUCTORY
BOOTSTRAP-LIFTING Bootstrap-lifting? says the reader.
BOOK ONE The Church of the Conquerors
The Priestly Lie
The Great Fear
Salve Regina!
Fresh Meat
Priestly Empires
Prayer-wheels
The Butcher-Gods
The Holy Inquisition
Hell-Fire
BOOK TWO The Church of Good Society
The Babylonian Fire-god
The Medicine-men
The Canonization of Incompetence
Gibson's Preservative
The Elders
Church History
Land and Livings
Graft in Tail
Bishops and Beer
Anglicanism and Alcohol
Dead Cats
Suffer Little Children
The Court Circular
Horn-blowing
Trinity Corporation
Spiritual Interpretation
BOOK THREE The Church of the Servant-girls
Charity
God's Armor
Thanksgivings
The Holy Roman Empire
Temporal Power
Knights of Slavery
Priests and Police
The Church Militant
The Church Triumphant
God in the Schools
The Menace
King Coal
The Unholy Alliance
Secret Service
Tax Exemption
"Holy History"
Das Centrum
BOOK FOUR The Church of the Slavers
Face of Caesar
Deutschland ueber Alles
Der Tag.
King Cotton
Witches and Women
Moth and Rust
The Octopus
The Industrial Shelley
The Outlook for Graft
Clerical Camouflage
The Jungle
BOOK FIVE The Church of the Merchants
The Head Merchant
"Herr Beeble"
Holy Oil
Rhetorical Black-hanging
The Great American Fraud
Riches in Glory
Captivating Ideals
Spook Hunting
Running the Rapids
Birth Control
Sheep
BOOK SIX The Church of the Quacks
Tabula Rasa
The Book of Mormon
Holy Rolling
Bible Prophecy
Koreshanity
Mazdaznan
Black Magic
Mental Malpractice
Science and Wealth
New Nonsense
"Dollars Want Me"
Spiritual Financiering
The Graft of Grace
BOOK SEVEN The Church of the Social Revolution
Christ and Caesar
Locusts and Wild Honey
Mother Earth
The Soap Box
The Church Machine
The Church Redeemed
The Desire of Nations
The Knowable
Nature's Insurgent Son
The New Morality
Envoi
Reader:
