P C Kemeny
Biographic Data
| ID | 192120 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P C Kemeny |
| GIVEN NAMES | P C |
| FAMILY NAME | Kemeny |
| SIGNATURE | KEMENY P C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Grove City College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Machen’s Hope
The New England Watch and Ward Society
The New England Watch and Ward Society provides a new window into the history of the Protestant establishment’s prominent role in late nineteenth-century public life and its confrontation with modernity, commercial culture, and cultural pluralism in early twentieth-century America. Elite liberal Protestants, typically considered progressive, urbane, and tolerant, established the Watch and Ward Society in 1878 to suppress obscene literature, inclu…
Epilogue
The history of the Watch and Ward Society following the controversies of the 1920s and 1930s is briefly reviewed. The strategies and tactics employed by the Watch and Ward Society help us better understand why mainline Protestantism’s efforts to impose a common civic morality upon American culture eventually failed. The collapse of its activities in the 1930s signaled the beginning of the end of Protestant cultural hegemony in the United States. …
The Failed Campaign Against Prostitution
Protestants criticized prostitution because it threatened the family and ultimately civil society, and the Watch and Ward Society devised a campaign to shut down Boston’s red-light districts. These Protestant elites espoused traditional gender roles and Victorian sexual mores and endorsed the “cult of domesticity.” In the late nineteenth century, a number of reform organizations turned their attention to the “social evil,” as it was popularly cal…
David Mislin. Saving Faith
Today, many liberal Protestant denominations eschew theological exclusivism and openly embrace religious pluralism. In Saving Faith: Making Religious Pluralism an American Value at the Dawn of the Secular Age, David Mislin uncovers the late-nineteenth-century origins of this commitment to religious diversity. Between 1870 and 1930, Mislin argues, some influential liberal Protestant leaders moved away from traditional convictions about the uniquen…
Banned in Boston
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American Evangelical Christianity
University Cultural Wars
Contrary to conventional wisdom, liberal Protestants, not fundamentalists, attempted to preserve Princeton University's traditional religious mission during the rapid intellectual and social change reshaping American higher education in the early twentieth century. In fact, when fundamentalists in the university community demanded the secularisation of the undergraduate programme, liberal Protestants spurned their efforts. Although American liber…
Governing Morals
Thomas K. Beecher
Journal Article Thomas K. Beecher: Minister to a Changing America, 1824–1900. By Myra C. Glenn. (Westport: Greenwood, 1996. xiv, 236 pp. $59.95, ISBN 0-313-29862-9.) Get access P. C. Kemeny P. C. Kemeny Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 3, December 1997, Pages 1058–1059, https://doi.org/10.2307/2953137 Published: 01 December…
Hurrying toward Zion
PREFACE INTRODUCTION: Visions and Strategies of Influence Part 1 SPECIALIZATION Chapter 1: Strategies for a System of Education Chapter 2: Educating to Understand the Other Chapter 3: Theological and Religious Sciences Part II PROFESSIONALIZATION Chapter 4: Theory and Practice Chapter 5: Two Yokes of Responsibility Part III FORMATION AND REFORM Chapter 6: Social Class and Social Gospel Chapter 7: Formation and the Heritage of Revolt Part IV PLURA…
Hurrying toward Zion
PREFACE INTRODUCTION: Visions and Strategies of Influence Part 1 SPECIALIZATION Chapter 1: Strategies for a System of Education Chapter 2: Educating to Understand the Other Chapter 3: Theological and Religious Sciences Part II PROFESSIONALIZATION Chapter 4: Theory and Practice Chapter 5: Two Yokes of Responsibility Part III FORMATION AND REFORM Chapter 6: Social Class and Social Gospel Chapter 7: Formation and the Heritage of Revolt Part IV PLURA…
Thomas K. Beecher
Journal Article Thomas K. Beecher: Minister to a Changing America, 1824–1900. By Myra C. Glenn. (Westport: Greenwood, 1996. xiv, 236 pp. $59.95, ISBN 0-313-29862-9.) Get access P. C. Kemeny P. C. Kemeny Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 3, December 1997, Pages 1058–1059, https://doi.org/10.2307/2953137 Published: 01 December…
Thomas K. Beecher
Journal Article Thomas K. Beecher: Minister to a Changing America, 1824–1900. By Myra C. Glenn. (Westport: Greenwood, 1996. xiv, 236 pp. $59.95, ISBN 0-313-29862-9.) Get access P. C. Kemeny P. C. Kemeny Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 3, December 1997, Pages 1058–1059, https://doi.org/10.2307/2953137 Published: 01 December…
Hurrying toward Zion
PREFACE INTRODUCTION: Visions and Strategies of Influence Part 1 SPECIALIZATION Chapter 1: Strategies for a System of Education Chapter 2: Educating to Understand the Other Chapter 3: Theological and Religious Sciences Part II PROFESSIONALIZATION Chapter 4: Theory and Practice Chapter 5: Two Yokes of Responsibility Part III FORMATION AND REFORM Chapter 6: Social Class and Social Gospel Chapter 7: Formation and the Heritage of Revolt Part IV PLURA…
Governing Morals
American Evangelical Christianity
University Cultural Wars
Contrary to conventional wisdom, liberal Protestants, not fundamentalists, attempted to preserve Princeton University's traditional religious mission during the rapid intellectual and social change reshaping American higher education in the early twentieth century. In fact, when fundamentalists in the university community demanded the secularisation of the undergraduate programme, liberal Protestants spurned their efforts. Although American liber…
Banned in Boston
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
David Mislin. Saving Faith
Today, many liberal Protestant denominations eschew theological exclusivism and openly embrace religious pluralism. In Saving Faith: Making Religious Pluralism an American Value at the Dawn of the Secular Age, David Mislin uncovers the late-nineteenth-century origins of this commitment to religious diversity. Between 1870 and 1930, Mislin argues, some influential liberal Protestant leaders moved away from traditional convictions about the uniquen…
The New England Watch and Ward Society
The New England Watch and Ward Society provides a new window into the history of the Protestant establishment’s prominent role in late nineteenth-century public life and its confrontation with modernity, commercial culture, and cultural pluralism in early twentieth-century America. Elite liberal Protestants, typically considered progressive, urbane, and tolerant, established the Watch and Ward Society in 1878 to suppress obscene literature, inclu…
Epilogue
The history of the Watch and Ward Society following the controversies of the 1920s and 1930s is briefly reviewed. The strategies and tactics employed by the Watch and Ward Society help us better understand why mainline Protestantism’s efforts to impose a common civic morality upon American culture eventually failed. The collapse of its activities in the 1930s signaled the beginning of the end of Protestant cultural hegemony in the United States. …
The Failed Campaign Against Prostitution
Protestants criticized prostitution because it threatened the family and ultimately civil society, and the Watch and Ward Society devised a campaign to shut down Boston’s red-light districts. These Protestant elites espoused traditional gender roles and Victorian sexual mores and endorsed the “cult of domesticity.” In the late nineteenth century, a number of reform organizations turned their attention to the “social evil,” as it was popularly cal…
Machen’s Hope
Philosophy (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Protestantism (5 works) · Religious studies (5 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · Hegemony (3 works)