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

ISBN-13: 9780415970310 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 288 str.

Keith A. Zahniser;Zahniser Keith; Keith A. Zahniser

Opis

Steel City Gospel tells the complex story of Pittsburgh citizens' struggle to define and eliminate the problems plaguing their city during the Progressive Era. Despite liberal churches' desire to stay out of politics, Pittsburgh's socially conscious Protestant laity undertook and promoted the city's most significant reform.

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.