Christianity and the Labor Movement

Christianity and the Labor Movement
Title Christianity and the Labor Movement PDF eBook
Author William Monroe Balch
Publisher
Pages 136
Release 1912
Genre Christian sociology
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Christianity and the Social Crisis

Christianity and the Social Crisis
Title Christianity and the Social Crisis PDF eBook
Author Walter Rauschenbusch
Publisher
Pages 478
Release 1907
Genre Christian ethics
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Bulletin

Bulletin
Title Bulletin PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 682
Release 1914
Genre Classified catalogs
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Library Books

Library Books
Title Library Books PDF eBook
Author Los Angeles Public Library
Publisher
Pages 510
Release 1914
Genre
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Bulletin (1901-195 )

Bulletin (1901-195 )
Title Bulletin (1901-195 ) PDF eBook
Author Brooklyn Public Library
Publisher
Pages 364
Release 1910
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The Christian Trade Unions in the Weimar Republic, 1918-1933

The Christian Trade Unions in the Weimar Republic, 1918-1933
Title The Christian Trade Unions in the Weimar Republic, 1918-1933 PDF eBook
Author William L. Patch
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 288
Release 1985-01-01
Genre History
ISBN 9780300033281

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The Gospel of Church

The Gospel of Church
Title The Gospel of Church PDF eBook
Author Janine Giordano Drake
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 329
Release 2023-09-29
Genre Religion
ISBN 0197614302

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"From the end of the Civil War until the early twentieth century, Anglo, immigrant, and African American settlers were moving north and west faster than ministers within the major denominations could follow them with churches. In 1890, Northern Methodists, the largest Protestant denomination, only claimed 3.5 percent of the American population. Roman Catholics claimed 9.9 percent, and African American Baptists, the largest Black denomination, claimed only 18 percent of the African American population. In total, under 30 percent of Americans went to church on a weekly basis. While African American churches served a relatively larger role within their communities, the major white denominations played a minor role in the lives of the working poor. Clergymen like Dwight Moody reflected, "The gulf between the churches and the mases is growing deeper, wider and darker every hour." Home missionaries like Josiah Strong warned, "Few appreciate how we have become a non-churchgoing-people." Strong was right. In large fractions of the country, especially mining and industrial centers in the West, a simple lack of church edifices and long-term ministers to fundraise for them gave way to a vacuum of Protestant, denominational authority. In part, this disconnect between the number of churches and the size of the population was a result of culturally dislocated migrants. In 1890, more than 9 million Americans were foreign-born, and only a small fraction of those Americans had any familiarity with Anglo-Protestant traditions. They were joined by another 1 million African Americans migrants from the South to northern industrial centers. But this was only one of many reasons the poor did not go to church with the wealthy. While middle-class families paid lip service to the importance of building capacious churches, their own policies and practices reinforced the class system. As one minister reflected in 1887, "The working men are largely estranged from the Protestant religion. Old churches standing in the midst of crowded districts are continually abandoned because they do not reach the workingmen." Meanwhile, he continued, "Go into an ordinary church on Sunday morning and you see lawyers, physicians, merchants and business men with their families [-]you see teachers, salesmen, and clerks, and a certain proportion of educated mechanics, but the workingman and his household are not there." As the working-classes swelled with the expansion of American factories, ordained Protestant ministers served an ever-dwindling proportion of the country"--