St. Mark''s and the Social Gospel: Methodist Women and Civil Rights in New Orleans, 18951965
English
By (author): Ellen Blue
The impact of St. Marks Community Center and United Methodist Church on the city of New Orleans is immense. Their stories are dramatic reflections of the times. But these stories are more than mere reflections because St. Marks changed the picture, leading the way into different understandings of what urban diversity could and should mean. This book looks at the contributions of St. Marks, in particular the important role played by women (especially deaconesses) as the church confronted social issues through the rise of the social gospel movement and into the modern civil rights era.
Ellen Blue uses St. Marks as a microcosm to tell a larger, overlooked story about women in the Methodist Church and the sources of reform. One of the few volumes on womens history within the church, this book challenges the dominant narrative of the social gospel movement and its past.
St. Marks and the Social Gospel begins by examining the period between 1895 and World War I, chronicling the centers development from its early beginnings as a settlement house that served immigrants and documenting the early social gospel activities of Methodist women in New Orleans. Part II explores the efforts of subsequent generations of women to further gender and racial equality between the 1920s and 1960. Major topics addressed in this section include an examination of the deaconesses training in Christian Socialist economic theory and the churchs response to the Brown decision. The third part focuses on the churchs direct involvement in the school desegregation crisis of 1960 , including an account of the pastor who broke the white boycott of a desegregated elementary school by taking his daughter back to class there. Part IV offers a brief look at the history of St. Marks since 1965.
Shedding new light on an often neglected subject, St. Marks and the Social Gospel will be welcomed by scholars of religious history, local history, social history, and womens studies. See more
Ellen Blue uses St. Marks as a microcosm to tell a larger, overlooked story about women in the Methodist Church and the sources of reform. One of the few volumes on womens history within the church, this book challenges the dominant narrative of the social gospel movement and its past.
St. Marks and the Social Gospel begins by examining the period between 1895 and World War I, chronicling the centers development from its early beginnings as a settlement house that served immigrants and documenting the early social gospel activities of Methodist women in New Orleans. Part II explores the efforts of subsequent generations of women to further gender and racial equality between the 1920s and 1960. Major topics addressed in this section include an examination of the deaconesses training in Christian Socialist economic theory and the churchs response to the Brown decision. The third part focuses on the churchs direct involvement in the school desegregation crisis of 1960 , including an account of the pastor who broke the white boycott of a desegregated elementary school by taking his daughter back to class there. Part IV offers a brief look at the history of St. Marks since 1965.
Shedding new light on an often neglected subject, St. Marks and the Social Gospel will be welcomed by scholars of religious history, local history, social history, and womens studies. See more
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