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Labour reforms—including the abolition of child labour, a shorter workweek, a living wage, and factory regulation—constituted the Social Gospel’s most prominent concerns. During the 1930s many of these ideals were realized through the rise of organized labour and the legislation of the New Deal by U.S. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt .
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The social gospel’s origins are often traced to the rise of late 19th-century urban industrialization, immediately following the Civil War. Largely, but not exclusively, rooted in Protestant churches, the social gospel emphasized how Jesus’ ethical teachings could remedy the problems caused by “Gilded Age”capitalism. Movement leaders took Jesus’ me...
Rauschenbusch began his career in the 1880s as minister of an immigrant church in the Hell’s Kitchen section of New York. His 1907 book, “Christianity and the Social Crisis”asserted that religion’s chief purpose was to create the highest quality of life for all citizens. Rauschenbusch linked Christianity to emerging theories of democratic socialism...
King’s statement highlights the importance of the social gospel conceptof “social salvation” for today’s religious left. Although many of its primary leaders come out of liberal Protestant denominations, the religious left is not a monolithic movement. Its leaders include prominent clergy, such as the Lutheran minister Nadia Boltz-Weber as well as ...
Despite the public visibility of activists like Barber, some question whether the religious left can become a potent political force. Sociologist James Wellman observesthat often religious progressives lack the “social infrastructure that creates and sustains a social movement; its leaders are spiritual entrepreneurs rather than institution builder...
- Christopher H. Evans
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Activists in the Social Gospel movement hoped that, if by public measures as well as enforced schooling, the poor could develop talents and skills, causing the quality of their moral lives to improve. Important concerns of the Social Gospel movement were labor reforms such as abolishing child labor and regulating the hours of work by mothers.
Passed first by the Methodists in 1907, the Social Creed called for many measures to alleviate the conditions created by the new industrial workplace, for instance, the alleviation of Sunday working hours, the elimination of child labor, and the creation of disability insurance for workers injured in factories.
By the 1920s, many Social Gospel leaders had distanced themselves from the organized working classes. They either accepted new arrangements for harmonizing the interests of labor and capital or took their left-leaning political ideals underground.
- Janine Giordano Drake
- 2017
WENDY J. DEICHMANN. THE social gospel movement in the United States began as a faith-based, grassroots movement of laity and clergy in the aftermath of the Civil War. During this era, American society faced extreme levels of social instability resulting not only from wartime trauma and loss, but also relocation of massive numbers of those ...
Jan 4, 2023 · - Abolishing child labor. - Lobbying for the eight-hour workday. - Denouncing corrupt politicians and businesses. - Advocating for prohibition. - Better education (including education for immigrants) - Healthcare for the needy.
