The Book of Mammon: A Book About a Book About the Corporation That Owns the Mormons

What happens when God and Mammon are made to synergize? The author opens the doors to Mormon corporate offices, most secret of spaces, and invites you inside. Have a look around. At the Church Office Building (it's actual name) spiritual ambitions speak through quarterly evaluations, mission statements, digital personas, and scripture marketing campaigns. Hear employees chant "cultural beliefs" composed by Human Resources and test if a new DVD hits your "spiritual hot buttons." Watch us market food storage to religious consumers. Read a stack of documents which depict the "best practices" of the corporate side, from smuggling underwear into banana republics to marketing the Book of Mormon. See the author, a cultural anthropologist, "work" (sometimes) as a media evaluator with the Mormon Church's corporate arm. During long lunches he traces the ins and outs of a religion being consumed by corporate culture, and you, Dear Reader, are invited along for the insights, laughs, and revelations. A compelling, light-hearted but serious memoir, sometimes fictional ethnography, and, yes, even apocalypse, this book crosses genres, fact, fancy, and everything between. Think: The Office meets The Bible.