Religion and reform in changing America White, Ronald C. Additional Author mixed material bibliography Philadelphia Temple University Press 1976 monographic en English

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The Social Gospel Religion and Reform in Changing America Ronald C. White, Jr., & C. Howard Hopkins With an essay by John C. Bennett Few are aware that the "movement of the 1960s-intensive efforts on behalf of peace and equal rights for women and blacks-began gathering momentum more than a half-century ago. This book shows how a crusade for justice and righteousness in American life grew to maturity in the Protestantism of the Progressive Era, and how it survived post-World War I "normalcy" and neo-orthodoxy to have a decisive role in shaping the social reforms of Roosevelt's New Deal. It goes on to show the ru-emergence of the social gospel in our own time as part of the social justice movement Some of the most prominent religious thinkers, political philosophers, and social activists of the twentieth century-Walter Rauschenbusch, Reinhold Niebuhr Washington Gladden, Frances Willard. W. E. B. Du Bois and Dr. Martin Luther King-were in their own ways, preachers of the social gospel, and are represented in this volume. 2300877220832 Transformatio Library Bandung Theological Seminary 230 Whi s E09004982 Non Fiction 230 Whi s Religion_and_reform_in_changing_America.jpg 39343 2014-11-27 11:54:25 2025-08-23 09:21:47 machine generated