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Union Made - Working People and the Rise of Social Christianity in Chicago (Hardcover)
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Union Made - Working People and the Rise of Social Christianity in Chicago (Hardcover)
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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 rise of the Social Gospel to middle-class
ministers, seminary professors, and social reformers, this book
places working people at the very center of the story. The major
characters-blacksmiths, glove makers, teamsters, printers, and the
like-have been mostly forgotten, but as Carter convincingly argues,
their collective contribution to American Social Christianity was
no less significant than that of Walter Rauschenbusch or Jane
Addams. Leading readers into the thick of late-19th-century
Chicago's tumultuous history, Carter shows that countless
working-class believers participated in the heated debates over the
implications of Christianity for industrializing society, often
with as much fervor as they did in other contests over wages and
the length of the workday. Throughout the Gilded Age the city's
trade unionists, socialists, and anarchists advanced theological
critiques of laissez faire capitalism and protested "scab
ministers" who cozied up to the business elite. Their criticisms
compounded church leaders' anxieties about losing the poor, such
that by the turn-of-the-century many leading Christians were
arguing that the only way to salvage hopes of a Christian America
was for the churches to soften their position on "the labor
question." As denomination after denomination did just that, it
became apparent that the Social Gospel was, indeed, ascendant-from
below.
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