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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"social gospel"”.
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Charles Horton Cooley and the Social Gospel influence
… early twentieth century, primarily due to his social theories that involved the connection between individuals and society. This thesis demonstrates this connection with the influence of the Social Gospel movement as a basis for Cooley’s evolving social organization theories that remained …
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“The least of these”: black club women and the social gospel
<p>Defined by a focus on social reform and Christian ethics, the social gospel emerged immediately after the Civil War when Christian leaders and organizations promulgated a religious ethic concerned with groups bearing low social standings, especially the working class. White male pastors led and …
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Mission christianity and the social gospel in Langa : a socio-political and cultural history, ca.1927-1960
… to becoming a place of militancy, violence and social polarisation by the time of the March 1960 uprisings against apartheid. In particular, the thesis seeks to trace the formative role of a combination of conservative and liberal modes of mission Christianity. Often loosely described as the …
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A Social Gospel for Millions: The Religious Bestsellers of Charles Sheldon, Charles Gordon, and Harold Bell Wright (Ralph Connor)
… in the United States during the period of the social gospel, the most popular religious bestsellers between 1897 and 1917 were examined according five questions that comprise a culture's belief system. The religious bestsellers were In His Steps by Charles Sheldon, Black Rock by "Ralph Connor" …
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Open hearts, closed doors : native Protestants, pluralism, and the "foreigner" in America, 1924-1965.
… by immigrants themselves, blended progressive social gospel ideals, such as the brotherhood of man, with traditional evangelistic goals. This diffusion of the social gospel among Protestant believers helped temper nativist sentiments inherited from the nineteenth century. While home missions …
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Religion as a factor in the defeat of Alfred E. Smith in the election of 1928
… the Church's vigorous support of the “Social Gospel,” and the accommodation of Catholics to American democratic institutions -- all of these factors helped to make the Church of Rome more acceptable to the majority of Americans. Nonetheless, there was still a considerable amount of …
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A "scourge and minister" : Lyman Abbott, liberal Protestantism, and American warfare, 1861-1920.
… theology and as a representative of the Social Gospel movement. Less well understood are Abbott's political opinions and philosophy. This thesis seeks to rectify this imbalance by examining Abbott's writings concerning the three major American wars fought during his lifetime: the Civil …
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Between religion and politics: The working class religious left, 1880-1920
… main arguments: First, through an analysis of socialist print culture and party meeting minutes, it argues that Christianity animated socialist culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Moreover, wage earners within socialist circles, and especially the emerging Socialist …
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The development of the social creed of the Methodist church
… of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the rise of social interest and action which led to the formulation and adoption of the Social Creed. The Creed is a comprehensive statement of ideals and purposes for the redemption of society. These principles are grounded in the Christian Gospel, which is in …
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Rediscovering the Heart of Public Administration: The Normative Theory of <i>In His Steps</i>
… stemmed from the field's deep roots in the social gospel movement of the early 20th century. For that short period, the nascent field was not viewed as a bastardization of constitutional order, but as a noble endeavor in which beloved sons and daughters participated in their nation's …
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The making of a battle royal: The rise of religious liberalism in Northern Baptist life, 1870-1920
… Schmidt. It also examines the development of the Social Gospel among Baptists in the Brotherhood of the Kingdom. Chapter 4 focuses on the University of Chicago, the greatest influence for liberalism among Northern Baptists. It surveys its founding and reviews the career of William Rainey Harper. …
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Taking the Moral Ground: Protestants, Feminists, and Gay Equality in North Carolina, 1970-1980
… equality within a platform of intersectional social justice across North Carolina in the 1970s. Against the backdrop of a burgeoning movement for women’s liberation and the rise of the New Right, women across the state melded the philosophies of the social gospel with feminist practices like …
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Images and perceptions of wives and daughters of the Victorian clergy
… of the Church of England, placing them in the social and religious context of their time. In a group biography of three women it looks at the companionate marriage of Henrietta and Samuel Barnett, in a partnership of shared projects, reform and delivery of the social gospel. Catherine Marsh was …
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Novel faiths: nonsecular fiction in the late-nineteenth-century U.S.
… century—beliefs that responded experimentally to social and intellectual upheavals like the rise of Darwinian evolution, the death toll of the Civil War, and the social ills of industrialization. Using the characters’ patterns of belief as models, the religious novels taught their readers how to …
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'Not by might, nor by power, but by spirit': the global reform efforts of the Young Women's Christian Association of the United States, 1895-1939
… create a type of egalitarian and multicultural Social Gospel in India. However, I find that they were unable to transcend their colonial context, and despite their anti-imperial protestations, they served the interests of the British Empire. Chapter three considers the YWCA’s building in Buenos …