Social Gospel Movement (1 Jan 1870 Jahr – 1 Jan 1920 Jahr)

Beschreibung:

A social movement within Protestantism that applied Christian ethics to social problems, especially issues of social justice
– Such as economic inequality, poverty, alcoholism, crime, racial tensions, slums, unclean environment, child labor, lack of unionization, poor schools, and the dangers of war
• Christian Activism
• Industrialization / Urbanization
• Legacy of Second Great Awakening
• Rise of new professions: sociology, economics, • political science
• Socially Progressive Christianity


• Urban middle-class reformers
• Jane Addams
– Hull House (Settlement house movement)
• YMCA
• WCTU (Women's Christian Temperance Union)

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