Home without walls: Southern Baptist women and social reform in the progressive era

They feared God more than men : the birth of the WMU -- The reconstruction of true womanhood : WMU and gender -- Professionalism and administration : the Armstrong era -- Unreliable allies : Southern Baptist women and race -- Saving society : the personal service department and the social gospel --...

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Main Author: Holcomb, Carol C. 1966- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Tuscaloosa The University of Alabama Press [2020]
In:Year: 2020
Series/Journal:Religion and American culture
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Southern Baptist Convention / Woman / Social progress / History
Further subjects:B Southern Baptist Convention Woman's Missionary Union History
B Progress Religious aspects Christianity
B SOCIAL settlements (Southern States) History
B Southern States Social conditions 1865-1945
B Progressivism (United States politics)
B Women in the Southern Baptist Convention History
B Social Gospel (Southern States) History
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Parallel Edition:Erscheint auch als: 978-0-8173-9289-5
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Summary:They feared God more than men : the birth of the WMU -- The reconstruction of true womanhood : WMU and gender -- Professionalism and administration : the Armstrong era -- Unreliable allies : Southern Baptist women and race -- Saving society : the personal service department and the social gospel -- "A gospel for all of life" : teaching and proclaiming the social gospel -- The kingdom at hand : social work training and social settlements.
"A study of the social views of Southern Baptist women through a critical examination of the Woman's Missionary Union (WMU) from 1888 to 1930, an era when American theologians were formulating the social gospel"--
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:0817320547