Heath W Carter
Biographic Data
| ID | 208283 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heath W Carter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heath W |
| FAMILY NAME | Carter |
| SIGNATURE | CARTER H W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton Theological Seminary |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-8084-6931 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Searching for God in Labor History
Innovation Begins at the Grassroots
The turn of the 20th century was a heyday of social gospels, an era marked by exceptional theological and institutional dynamism. Notably, the impetus for change did not originate in the clergy's own circles. In this article I use a historical case study to argue that innovation often begins at the grassroots. As much as elite institutions might long to engineer and manage the way forward, they are rarely at the vanguard of what is coming; nor ar…
Who Is an Evangelical? The History of a Movement in Crisis
Thomas S. Kidd's new book, Who Is an Evangelical? tackles a question that has long bedeviled American religious historians. Swimming against the current of much recent scholarship, Kidd argues that evangelicalism was, in its origins, and remains, at its core, “a spiritual movement” (p. 26). Insofar as historians and journalists alike have tended to emphasize believers' political activities, they have misapprehended the tradition's beating heart: …
Wilderness Aplenty, but Prophets Few
This essay argues that, whatever the continuities between the religious worlds of the late nineteenth century and those of our own time, the discontinuities are significant enough that we should be cautious in deploying the notion of a new Gilded Age. In particular, the prevalence of work-class conservatism in recent decades stands in stark contrast to the roiling debates and radical departures spearheaded by working-class believers involved with…
The Kingdom of God Has No Borders
The Ministers' War
The Oneida Community continues to captivate scholars and laypersons alike. Those interested in the longue durée of John Humphrey Noyes's 1848 experiment with Bible communism should consult Ellen Wayland-Smith's excellent book Oneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well-Set Table (2016), which follows the story into the present. In The Ministers' War Michael Doyle explores the initial communal phase (stretching from the early 1840s to the late 1870s…
American Prophets
Princeton historian Albert J. Raboteau has had a long and distinguished career as a historian of African American religion. His pioneering 1978 study, Slave Religion: The “Invisible Institution” in the American South, generated entirely new historiographical horizons and is one of those rare books that, fully 40 years after publication, remains a must read for graduate students in a variety of related fields. Raboteau retired in 2013 and his late…
The Making of Working-Class Religion by Matthew Pehl
Book Review| May 01 2018 The Making of Working-Class Religion by Matthew Pehl The Making of Working-Class Religion, Pehl, Matthew, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2016, 245 pp., $95.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper); $27.00 (e-book) Heath W. Carter Heath W. Carter Valparaiso University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2018) 15 (2): 138–139. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-4353902 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Fa…
The Pew and the Picket Line
This book collects works from a new generation of scholars working at the nexus where religious history and working-class history converge. Focusing on Christianity and its unique purchase in America, the book uses in-depth local histories to illustrate how Americans male and female, rural and urban, and from a range of ethnic backgrounds dwelt in a space between the Church and the shop floor. The vivid chapters show Pentecostal miners preaching …
Pew and the Picket Line
Union Made
“With the Prophets of Old”
By the mid-point of the Gilded Age, Chicago’s working-class communities had become hotbeds of alternative Christianities. To be sure, many wage earners were faithful churchgoers who eschewed class activism. But what had begun in the 1860s and 1870s as a narrow stream of working-class discontent with the institutional churches widened during the Great Upheaval of the mid-1880s into a churning river. Throughout those turbulent years surrounding the…
Social Gospels Thrived Outside the Church
Three vignettes underscore that, in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century United States, social gospels often fared best outside the walls of the institutional churches. They also reveal diverging interpretations of Christianity and the church that begin to explain the divergence between religious liberalism and social progressivism during this time
Reprehensible or Representative? The Gospel of Wealth in Modern American Life
The prosperity gospel boasts a remarkably diverse array of detractors. Fundamentalist, neo-Reformed, and mainline Christians almost never find themselves on the same side of theological battles, bu
Labor and the Politics of the Church
Research Article| May 01 2014 Labor and the Politics of the Church Heath W. Carter Heath W. Carter Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2014) 11 (2): 13–16. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2410975 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Heath W. Carter; Labor and the Politics of the Church. Labor 1 May 2014; 11 (2): 13–16. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715…
Scab Ministers, Striking Saints
Throughout 1894, Chicago's churches were as divided by class as the nation itself. During the Pullman strike and boycott, the city's leading Protestant and Catholic authorities hewed to an ideology of contract freedom that precluded support for the American Railway Union. Meanwhile, a handful of young Protestant ministers championed the strikers, echoing the criticisms of those working-class Protestants who had long decried the established church…
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Scab Ministers, Striking Saints
Throughout 1894, Chicago's churches were as divided by class as the nation itself. During the Pullman strike and boycott, the city's leading Protestant and Catholic authorities hewed to an ideology of contract freedom that precluded support for the American Railway Union. Meanwhile, a handful of young Protestant ministers championed the strikers, echoing the criticisms of those working-class Protestants who had long decried the established church…
Labor and the Politics of the Church
Research Article| May 01 2014 Labor and the Politics of the Church Heath W. Carter Heath W. Carter Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2014) 11 (2): 13–16. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2410975 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Heath W. Carter; Labor and the Politics of the Church. Labor 1 May 2014; 11 (2): 13–16. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715…
Union Made
“With the Prophets of Old”
By the mid-point of the Gilded Age, Chicago’s working-class communities had become hotbeds of alternative Christianities. To be sure, many wage earners were faithful churchgoers who eschewed class activism. But what had begun in the 1860s and 1870s as a narrow stream of working-class discontent with the institutional churches widened during the Great Upheaval of the mid-1880s into a churning river. Throughout those turbulent years surrounding the…
Social Gospels Thrived Outside the Church
Three vignettes underscore that, in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century United States, social gospels often fared best outside the walls of the institutional churches. They also reveal diverging interpretations of Christianity and the church that begin to explain the divergence between religious liberalism and social progressivism during this time
Reprehensible or Representative? The Gospel of Wealth in Modern American Life
The prosperity gospel boasts a remarkably diverse array of detractors. Fundamentalist, neo-Reformed, and mainline Christians almost never find themselves on the same side of theological battles, bu
The Pew and the Picket Line
This book collects works from a new generation of scholars working at the nexus where religious history and working-class history converge. Focusing on Christianity and its unique purchase in America, the book uses in-depth local histories to illustrate how Americans male and female, rural and urban, and from a range of ethnic backgrounds dwelt in a space between the Church and the shop floor. The vivid chapters show Pentecostal miners preaching …
Pew and the Picket Line
American Prophets
Princeton historian Albert J. Raboteau has had a long and distinguished career as a historian of African American religion. His pioneering 1978 study, Slave Religion: The “Invisible Institution” in the American South, generated entirely new historiographical horizons and is one of those rare books that, fully 40 years after publication, remains a must read for graduate students in a variety of related fields. Raboteau retired in 2013 and his late…
The Making of Working-Class Religion by Matthew Pehl
Book Review| May 01 2018 The Making of Working-Class Religion by Matthew Pehl The Making of Working-Class Religion, Pehl, Matthew, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2016, 245 pp., $95.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper); $27.00 (e-book) Heath W. Carter Heath W. Carter Valparaiso University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2018) 15 (2): 138–139. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-4353902 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Fa…
The Ministers' War
The Oneida Community continues to captivate scholars and laypersons alike. Those interested in the longue durée of John Humphrey Noyes's 1848 experiment with Bible communism should consult Ellen Wayland-Smith's excellent book Oneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well-Set Table (2016), which follows the story into the present. In The Ministers' War Michael Doyle explores the initial communal phase (stretching from the early 1840s to the late 1870s…
Wilderness Aplenty, but Prophets Few
This essay argues that, whatever the continuities between the religious worlds of the late nineteenth century and those of our own time, the discontinuities are significant enough that we should be cautious in deploying the notion of a new Gilded Age. In particular, the prevalence of work-class conservatism in recent decades stands in stark contrast to the roiling debates and radical departures spearheaded by working-class believers involved with…
The Kingdom of God Has No Borders
Who Is an Evangelical? The History of a Movement in Crisis
Thomas S. Kidd's new book, Who Is an Evangelical? tackles a question that has long bedeviled American religious historians. Swimming against the current of much recent scholarship, Kidd argues that evangelicalism was, in its origins, and remains, at its core, “a spiritual movement” (p. 26). Insofar as historians and journalists alike have tended to emphasize believers' political activities, they have misapprehended the tradition's beating heart: …
Searching for God in Labor History
Innovation Begins at the Grassroots
The turn of the 20th century was a heyday of social gospels, an era marked by exceptional theological and institutional dynamism. Notably, the impetus for change did not originate in the clergy's own circles. In this article I use a historical case study to argue that innovation often begins at the grassroots. As much as elite institutions might long to engineer and manage the way forward, they are rarely at the vanguard of what is coming; nor ar…
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