Union made : working people and the rise of social Christianity in Chicago

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]
Subjects:
Labor unions > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Labor unions > Illinois > Chicago > History.
Labor movement > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Labor movement > Illinois > Chicago > History.
Christian sociology > Illinois > Chicago > History.
RELIGION > Christian Life > Social Issues.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
Christian sociology
Labor movement
Labor movement > Religious aspects > Christianity
Labor unions
Labor unions > Religious aspects > Christianity
Illinois > Chicago
History
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Table of Contents:
  • "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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