Edinburgh University Press
Social Christianity in Scotland and Beyond, 1800-2000
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About this book
Social Christianity in Scotland and Beyond explores the multifarious initiatives known variously as ‘social Christianity’, ‘Christian socialism’, or the ‘social gospel’, that spanned countries, continents, decades, and denominations. Building on the scholarship of Stewart J. Brown, to whom this volume is dedicated, fourteen leading and emerging scholars of the history of Christianity consider the varying social policies and initiatives that Christians have pursued in response to industrialisation, urbanisation, expanding global trade networks, and nascent democratic politics.
With a particular focus on religious communities in Scotland, the essays provide comparative lenses with which to view sociological and theological developments through examinations of similar phenomena in England, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States. In adopting an international perspective that extends beyond Britain and the US, this volume encourages a more holistic understanding of social Christianity as part of a multifaceted and fluid belief system that evolved and shifted according to context.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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List of Contributors
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Foreword In Praise of Jay, Friend and Colleague
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Introduction
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chapter one The Social Concerns of Brunswick Wesleyan Chapel, Leeds, in the Victorian Era
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chapter two Navigating Cultural Pluralism: Christian Responses to Radical Unbelief in Early Nineteenth-century Scotland
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chapter three Wrestling with Dilemmas: Presbyterian Evangelism and Slavery in the American Ante-bellum South
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chapter four Awakened Protestants’ Calls for ‘Christian Socialism’ and ‘Christian Communism’ in Germany, 1844–50
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chapter five James Baird and the Baird Trust: Industrial Philanthropy and Evangelical Activism in Victorian Scotland
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chapter six In Person, Print and Prayer: The Shared Mission of Scottish and English Ragged Schools in the Nineteenth Century
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chapter seven Mary Magdalene and the ‘Fallen’ Sisters: The Social Gospel of the Magdalene Asylums in Scotland
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chapter eight ‘Standing in the Gap’: D. L. Moody and Evangelical Social Christianity in Chicago and Scotland, 1860–1900
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chapter nine ‘The Saving of the Body’: Sport at Church in England since 1850
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chapter ten Henry Scott Holland and Social Christianity in the English Fin de siècle
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chapter eleven ‘Indignation would arise within you’: Herman Bavinck on Racial Injustice in Europe and North America
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chapter twelve ‘Woodbine Willie’ and the Quest for a Social Christianity after the First World War
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chapter thirteen Billy Graham, the All Scotland Crusade of 1955 and the Social Gospel
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chapter fourteen Social Christianity on the Mission Field: Shifting Patterns in British and American Protestant Globalism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
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Bibliography of Stewart J. Brown Professor Emeritus of Ecclesiastical History, University of Edinburgh
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Index
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