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Martin Luther King, Jr., and the African-American Social Gospel
Clayborne Carson on the religious roots of King's social reformism.
www.stanford.edu
NOW with Bill Moyers. Society and Community. History of the Social Gospel | PBS
Information about the Social Gospel tradition of Christian socialism.
www.pbs.org
The Origins of the Social Gospel
Lecture notes from a course on "Religious Life in the United States" examining the origins, theology and impact of the social gospel movement.
www.wfu.edu
Selections from Practical Christianity, An Epitome of Practical Christian Socialism by Adin Ballou, edited by Lynn Gordon Hughes.
www.adinballou.org
The Prophetic Imperative: Social Gospel in Theory and Practice
Discussion guide to the book by Richard S. Gilbert. PDF format.
www.uua.org
Paper by economics professor Richard E. Hattwick on the social gospel minister and agricultural reformer who was the grandfather of Vice President Henry A. Wallace.
www.anbhf.org
Sharing the social gospel - Their Christian Duty: Canadian Missionaries Abroad
For Canadians in China, missionary work went beyond spreading the word of the Bible. Resources from the archives of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
archives.cbc.ca
Social and Religious Context of the Social Gospel
The excesses of the Victorian age gave foundation to a number of important political and religious trends that which converged to give rise to the Social Gospel.
spider.georgetowncollege.edu
The Social Gospel is an attempt to apply Christianity to the collective ills of an industrializing society, and was a major force in Canadian religious, social and political life from the 1890s through the 1930s.
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com
Short discussion of the conflict between social gospel and evangelical Christianity.
latter-rain.com
The attempt to move society toward the Kingdom of God by applying Jesus' message to social issues.
demo.lutherproductions.com
Article from the Glossary of Religion and Philosophy.
atheism.about.com
The Social Gospel - Class Notes
Political perspective on the social gospel movement in early twentieth century America.
www.politicalscience.utoledo.edu
Downloadable books on the topic available by subscription.
www.questia.com
Social Gospel Movement - BoondocksNet Editions
Social Gospel movement books, including The Religion of Revolution and books about Leo Tolstoy, William Lloyd Garrison, Samuel Golden Rule Jones, and the religious movements of the Progressive Era.
www.boondocksnet.com