Steel City Gospel: Protestant Laity and Reform in Progressive-Era Pittsburgh

ISBN-13: 9780415861465 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 288 str.

Keith A. Zahniser

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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