Religion and Social Thought
The Secularization of Postmillennialism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2733089 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jean B Quandt (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1973 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 390 |
| Publication date | 1973-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0678 • E-ISSN: 1080-6490 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2711630 |
| OpenAlex | W2313731115 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 1 |
IN THE PROCESS OF DEFINING LATE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY American culture, historians have attributed increasing importance to the role of religion in social thought. Studies of academics and reformers show not so much a sharp break with the religious certainties of the pre-Darwinian age as a merging of new scientific ideas with older Protestant sensibilities. In The Paradox of Progressive Thought, David Noble demonstrates the continuing elements of belief in moral absolutes, in spiritual progress and in theism within an evolutionary framework. Between 1890 and 1919, men like H. D. Lloyd, Herbert Croly and Simon Patten visualized history as the progressive realization of social solidarity through science, industry and a religiously inspired altruism. R. Jackson Wilson's study of intellectuals in search of community reveals the part played by religious ideas in the thought of social scientists like James Mark Baldwin and G. Stanley Hall. Finally, Clyde Griffen has argued that what distinguished Progressive reformers from other groups was the combination of a religious or quasireligious ideal of democracy with a piecemeal attitude to social change; moreover, he links this syndrome with the continuing influence of an earlier evangelical Protestantism.' This kind of approach does not deny the modernity of these thinkers. Rather, it puts some of the salient features of social thought, such as the search for scientific solutions to social problems, within a larger cultural framework where older religious impulses were still powerful
Democracy · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Ideal (ethics · Modernity · Political science · Protestantism · Secularization · Social thought · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment · Religious studies
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Beyond structuralism and voluntarism
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The First Faith-Based Movement
In War Time
Prokhanov’s missiology
Jane Addams’ Social Vision
Le naturalisme de John Dewey
What Has Wittenberg to Do with Azusa
Religion and Evolution in Progressive Era Political Economy
The Erosion of Postmillennialism in American Religious Thought, 1865-1925
| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,38 |
| Citation span | 1984 - 2026 (43) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |