Keith A. Zahniser

Steel City Gospel

Protestant Laity and Reform in Progressive-Era Pittsburgh

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Demonstrating the power religious language, ideas, and institutions had in shaping progressive reform in Pittsburgh, this cross-disciplinary study addresses significant debates in the fields of Progressive-Era political history and American religious history, while telling the story of an industrial city in a crucial era of change.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 421g
• ISBN-13: 9780415861465
• ISBN-10: 0415861462
• Artikelnr.: 37331736

Autorenporträt

Keith A. Zahniser is currently teaching in the Department of History at the University of Southern Indiana.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Chapter 1: Pittsburgh Protestant Churches and Early
Progressive Reform in Pittsburgh Chapter 2: Pittsburgh's Activist Laity:
Agents of Moral Discourse Chapter 3: Reformers and the Search for Moral
Government Chapter 4: Graft, Vice, and the Reform of Pittsburgh's
Government Chapter 5: Back to the Churches: The Christian Social Service
Union and the Reclamation of Moral Discourse Conclusion Notes Bibliography
Index