Union made : working people and the rise of social Christianity in Chicago / Heath W. Carter.

Carter advances a new interpretation of the origins of American Social Christianity. While historians have often attributed the rise of the Social Gospel to middle-class ministers, seminary professors, and social reformers, he places working people at the very center of the story. Leading readers in...

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Main Author: Carter, Heath W. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2015]
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505 0 |a "Is the laborer worthy of his hire?" : Christianity and class in antebellum Chicago -- "Undefiled Christianity" : the rise of a working-class social gospel -- "It pays to go to church" : ministers, "the mob," and the scramble for working-class souls -- "With the prophets of old" : working people's challenge to the Gilded Age church -- "The divorce between labor and the church" : working people strike out on their own in 1894 Chicago -- "To Christianize Christianity" : labor on the move in turn-of-the-century Chicago -- "Social Christianity becomes official" : the rise of a middle-class social gospel. 
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