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"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"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Holcomb, Carol C. (Carol Crawford), 1966- (Author)
Corporate Author: Project Muse
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2020]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Southern Baptist Convention. > Woman's Missionary Union.
Southern Baptist Convention. > Woman's Missionary Union > History.
Women in the Southern Baptist Convention.
Social settlements.
Social gospel.
Social conditions.
Progressivism (United States politics)
Progress > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Évangile social > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
Centres sociaux > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
Progressisme > États-Unis.
Progres > Aspect religieux > Christianisme.
Women in the Southern Baptist Convention > History.
Social gospel > Southern States > History.
Social settlements > Southern States > History.
Southern States.
États-Unis (Sud) > Conditions sociales > 1865-1945.
Southern States > Social conditions > 1865-1945.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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