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The story goes that a small group of radical, white, male leaders created social Christianity, supported by the middle classes. Heath Carter's account of ...
Union Made: Working People and the Rise of Social Christianity in Chicago
Book by Heath W. Carter
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In Gilded Age America, rampant inequality gave rise to a new form of Christianity, one that sought to ease the sufferings of the poor not simply by saving their souls, but by transforming society. In Union Made, Heath W. Carter advances a bold new... Google Books
Originally published: 2015
Author: Heath W. Carter
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Heath Carter's account of Chicago, labor and the churches offers a different tale. In Union Made (Oxford), Carter tells about dozens of ordinary working folk, ...
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In Union Made, Heath W. Carter advances a bold new interpretation of the origins of American Social Christianity. While historians have often attributed the ...
Union Made is a beautifully written, extensively researched case study of the process by which Protestant and Catholic workers in industrial-era Chicago forced ...
This study's central argument is that social Christianity was in no small part 'union made.' In saying this, I advance two interrelated theses.
Having spearheaded the rise of social Christianity in cities like Chicago, working people such as Agnes Nestor and James Kline continued to propound social ...
Union Made: Working People and the Rise of Social. Christianity in Chicago by Heath W. Carter, and: No. Depression in Heaven: The Great Depression, the New ...
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Dec 1, 2017 · The city's trade unionists, socialists, and anarchists advanced theological critiques of laissez faire capitalism and protested "scab ministers" ...
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Read 10 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. In Gilded Age America, rampant inequality gave rise to a new form of Christianity, one that…
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Jan 8, 2018 · Set in the Windy City, Union Made: Working People and the Rise of Social Christianity in Chicago recounts the developing relationship ...