Washington Gladden's Church : The Minister Who Made Modern American Protestantism

Mislin, David

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers（2019/09発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 226 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781442268920

Full Description

This is the first significant book-length biography in over 50 years of Washington Gladden, a minister, journalist, and reformer whose message of religious liberalism came to define modern Protestantism in the United States. Although largely forgotten today, Gladden was one of the most well-known pastors of his time and a leader of the social gospel and progressive movement. Mislin chronicles Gladden's early years bristling against the culture of a pious small town in upstate New York, his personal and family struggles during the Civil War, and his eventual professional success that came by providing a religious message for a society struggling with skepticism about organized religion, massive economic inequality, rampant corporate malfeasance, and widespread racial and religious bigotry.

Through this book, Gladden's life emerges as both a model for the fusion of progressive political, social, and religious commitments, as well as a cautionary tale of the potential perils for those who critique society from inside elite institutions.

Contents

Preface vii
Acknowledgments xiii
1 Observer 1
2 Survivor 21
3 Rebel 41
4 Journalist 61
5 Pastor 85
6 Reformer 105
7 Unifier 129
8 Critic 151
Afterword 173
Notes 175
Index 203
About the Author 211