Zahniser Steel City Gospel

Protestant Laity and Reform in Progressive-Era Pittsburgh
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-135-87845-0
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

Reihe: Religion in History, Society and Culture

Demonstrating the power religious language, ideas, and institutions had in shaping progressive reform in Pittsburgh, this cross-disciplinary study addresses significant debates in the fields of Progressive-Era political history and American religious history, while telling the story of an industrial city in a crucial era of change.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zahniser, Keith A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Chapter 1: Pittsburgh Protestant Churches and Early Progressive Reform in Pittsburgh

Chapter 2: Pittsburgh's Activist Laity: Agents of Moral Discourse

Chapter 3: Reformers and the Search for Moral Government

Chapter 4: Graft, Vice, and the Reform of Pittsburgh's Government

Chapter 5: Back to the Churches: The Christian Social Service Union and the Reclamation of Moral Discourse

Conclusion

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Keith A. Zahniser is currently teaching in the Department of History at the University of Southern Indiana.