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Socialism and Christianity in Early 20th Century America (Hardcover, New)
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Socialism and Christianity in Early 20th Century America (Hardcover, New)
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Despite an anti-religious reputation and the anti-religious
worldview of many members, the American Socialist movement held a
primarily religious and moral attraction for a small but highly
articulate group of American Christians of diverse religious
tradition. This study explores the dramatic and at times dangerous
lives of individuals who found in the vibrant, growing socialist
movement before World War I the grounds for hope that the biblical
ideals of human worth and economic justice would at last be
fulfilled. Its subjects are male and female, black and white,
native- and foreign-born, clergy and lay people, and products of
Christian traditions ranging from African-American Baptist to
Episcopalian. Readers will find not Milquetoasts standing
hesitantly on the sidelines, but Christians with an unequivocal
commitment to the complete socialist program who made major
contributions to socialist work as authors, political candidates,
and party leaders. Biographical chapters examine the interaction
between their subjects' experiences amidst the suffering of an
urban-industrial society and their religious commitments, the
perspectives on the meaning of socialism they brought to their work
for the Socialist Party of America, and their careers after war and
the rise of communism shattered the socialist movement. These
biographies and an introductory chapter on the wider relationships
between religion and socialism in Progressive-era America
demonstrate that Christians made quite substantial contributions to
the party, and that, far from being a monolithic group, they spread
out across the spectrum of socialist ideology and tactics. Other
issues include attempts to spread socialism within the churches,
the Socialist Party's debates over religion, Roman Catholic efforts
to prevent Catholic workers' acceptance of socialism, and the
ethical qualities that made socialism appealing to Christians.
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