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Autore: | Zahniser Keith A. <1964-> |
Titolo: | Steel City gospel [[electronic resource] ] : Protestant laity and reform in Progressive-Era Pittsburgh / / Keith A. Zahniser |
Pubblicazione: | New York, : Routledge, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (281 p.) |
Disciplina: | 280/.4/097488609041 |
Soggetto topico: | Protestant churches - Pennsylvania - Pittsburgh - History - 20th century |
Christianity and politics - Pennsylvania - Pittsburgh - History - 20th century | |
Church and social problems - Pennsylvania - Pittsburgh - History - 20th century | |
Christianity and politics - Protestant churches - History - 20th century | |
Church and social problems - Protestant churches - History - 20th century | |
Soggetto geografico: | Pittsburgh (Pa.) Church history 20th century |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-266) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Front Cover; Steel City Gospel; CopyrightPage; Contents; Series Editors' Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One.Pittsburgh Protestant Churches and Early Progressive Reform in the Steel City; Chapter Two.Pittsburgh's Activist Laity: Agents of the Moral Reform Discourse; Chapter Three.Pittsburgh Reformers and the Search for Moral Government; Chapter Four.Graft, Vice, and the Reform of Pittsburgh's Government; Chapter Five.Back to the Churches: the Christian Social Service Union and the Reclamation of the Moral Reform Discourse; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | Demonstrating the power religious language, ideas, and institutions had in shaping progressive reform in Pittsburgh, this cross-disciplinary study addresses significant debates in the fields of Progressive-Era political history and American religious history, while telling the story of an industrial city in a crucial era of change. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Steel City gospel |
ISBN: | 1-135-87844-7 |
1-280-28212-6 | |
9786610282128 | |
0-203-49683-3 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910783961003321 |
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