A Consuming Faith: The Social Gospel and Modern American Culture
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (688 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0826213626 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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Going beyond their roles in the movement, Curtis shows them to be sons and daughters, husbands and wives, and workers and citizens who experienced the vast changes in their world wrought by industrialization and class conflict even as they sought to define a meaningful religious life. The result of their quest was a redefinition of Protestantism that contributed to an evolving public discourse and culture.This groundbreaking study, now with a new preface by Curtis, provides an illuminating look at c
"Curtis has achieved an intelligent and engaging view of a seminal American Protestant religious movement."—American Historical Review
Roger D. Launius said Exploring the Roots of Modern American Morality. "A Consuming Faith" is an important study of the ideology of the Social Gospel movement present among American Christians during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Susan Curtis argues that the Social Gospel provided a necessary linkage between the Protestant-Victorian construct of society of the nineteenth century and the more secular consumer culture that emerged following World War I. Most Social Gospel reformers of the 1890s shared middle-class origins and a concern for the underside of America civilization. They have been portrayed, usually accurately, as a generation of Christian reformers who ga