1st Edition

Steel City Gospel Protestant Laity and Reform in Progressive-Era Pittsburgh

By Keith A. Zahniser Copyright 2005
    288 Pages
    by Routledge

    288 Pages
    by Routledge

    Demonstrating the power religious language, ideas, and institutions had in shaping progressive reform in Pittsburgh, this cross-disciplinary study addresses significant debates in the fields of Progressive-Era political history and American religious history, while telling the story of an industrial city in a crucial era of change.

    Introduction Chapter 1: Pittsburgh Protestant Churches and Early Progressive Reform in Pittsburgh Chapter 2: Pittsburgh's Activist Laity: Agents of Moral Discourse Chapter 3: Reformers and the Search for Moral Government Chapter 4: Graft, Vice, and the Reform of Pittsburgh's Government Chapter 5: Back to the Churches: The Christian Social Service Union and the Reclamation of Moral Discourse Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

    Biography

    Keith A. Zahniser is currently teaching in the Department of History at the University of Southern Indiana.