| Description |
1 online resource (329 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- The Gospel of Church -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Gilded Age Churches and the Vacuum of Denominational Authority -- 2. Christianity and the American Commonwealth -- 3. Planting the Church of Social Democracy: Socialism and Christian Socialism in the Socialist Party of America -- 4. Christian Socialists and the Socialist Party -- 5. Socialism and the Limits of American Protestantism -- 6. Reframing the Moral Lessons of the Labor Movement -- 7. Charles Stelzle's Labor Temple and the Contested Boundaries of American Religion |
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8. The Great War and the Victory of White Protestant Clergy -- 9. The Interchurch World Movement and the Christening of the Open Shop -- Afterword: On the Heroic Narrative of Christian Social Service -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
In The Gospel of Church, Janine Giordano Drake traces the rivalry between organized labor and the American churches from 1880 to 1920, highlighting how the rise in labor and agricultural movements at the turn of the century ran parallel with low church-attendance, high circulation rates of socialist newspapers, and outdoor revivalism, as communities animated by a shared commitment to a Christian Commonwealth took the place of formal religion for thousands of working people. Social Gospel ministers' efforts to assert their authority over industrial affairs directly undermined workers' efforts t |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Christian socialism -- United States
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Protestant churches -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Christianity and politics -- United States
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Church history -- 20th century
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780197614310 |
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0197614310 |
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