Title Home without Walls Southern Baptist Women and Social Reform in the Progressive Era / Carol Crawford Holcomb

Published Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2020] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)

Click on the following:
ProQuest Ebook Central

Copies

Description 1 online resource (pages cm.) Series Religion and American culture Book collections on Project MUSE 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 Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record Subject Southern Baptist Convention. Woman's Missionary Union -- History SUBJECT Southern Baptist Convention. Woman's Missionary Union fast Subject Progress -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Progressivism (United States politics) Social settlements -- Southern States -- History Social gospel -- Southern States -- History Women in the Southern Baptist Convention -- History Progress -- Religious aspects -- Christianity Progressivism (United States politics) Social conditions Social gospel Social settlements Women in the Southern Baptist Convention SUBJECT Southern States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90004000 Subject Southern States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Project Muse. LC no. 2019035991 ISBN 0817392890 9780817392895

  Permalink