Christianity and Socialism in America, 1900-1920
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3324972 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert T Handy (Union Theological Seminary, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1952 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 39-54 |
| Publication date | 1952-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Church History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-6407 • E-ISSN: 1755-2613 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3162069 |
| OpenAlex | W2136242304 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 7 |
American Christian churches in the first three quarters of the nineteenth century were in general strongly conservative in social and economic outlook, and solidly supported the individualism of the time. But after the Civil War the swiftly and often painfully changing social scene stimulated widespread interest in economic and social matters and contributed to extensive rethinking of traditional views on the part of many Christians. Important reformist, progressive, and radical Christian social movements rose and agitated the churches. Hence, when socialism grew with startling rapidity in the first decade and a half of the twentieth century, the attention of Christians was powerfully drawn to the new development. In that period when awareness of the social problem throbbed in the atmosphere of the time, that period of muckraking and trustbusting, progressivism and the sociological novel, the Socialist Party found rich soil in which to grow. The socialist vote grew from slightly over 400,000 in 1904 to some 900,000 in 1912, while party membership increased from 25,000 to 120,000 in the same period. By the latter date there were over one thousand socialists in elective positions across the land, most of them in minor posts, but with fifty mayors and twenty legislators included in the total. This rapid growth raised in a new and urgent way the problem of the relationship that should exist between Christianity and socialism
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The Radicalization of the Social Gospel
“History as Revelation” in the Theology of the Social Gospel
Religion and Radical Labor Unionism
The Implicit Religion of Radicalism
DSA's Religion and Socialism Commission
The Emergence of Social Gospel Radicalism
The Social Gospel and Socialism
William Dwight Porter Bliss's Christian Socialism
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 1978 - 2018 (41) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |