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1 online resource (321 pages) |
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Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I: Methodist Women Doing Settlement Work: 1895-World War I; Chapter 1: The Mary Werlein Mission, 1895-1908; Chapter 2: St. Mark's Hall, 1909-1917; Chapter 3: St. Mark's Community Center in the Post-World War I Era; Part II: Work for Gender and Racial Equality: 1920s-1960; Chapter 4: "A Restlessness of Women"; Chapter 5: Addressing Racial Injustice before and after Brown; Part III: Crises in Church, Center, and City: 1960-1965; Chapter 6: St. Mark's in Crisis, 1960-1965; Chapter 7: Assessing St. Mark's in the Sixties. |
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Part IV: Post-1965 and ConclusionChapter 8: Since 1965; Chapter 9: Conclusion; Appendix A: Sources for Research on MECS Women's Work; Appendix B: A Charter of Racial Policies; Notes; Index. |
| Summary |
The impact of St. Mark & rsquo;s Community Center and United Methodist Church on the city of New Orleans is immense. Their stories are dramatic reflections of the times. But these stories are more than mere reflections because St. Mark & rsquo;s changed the picture, leading the way into different understandings of what urban diversity could and should mean. This book looks at the contributions of St. Mark & rsquo;s, in particular the important role played by women (especially deaconesses) as the church confronted social issues through the rise of the social gospel movement and into the modern. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
St. Mark's United Methodist Church (New Orleans, La.) -- History.
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St. Mark's United Methodist Church (New Orleans, La.) |
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History. |
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St. Mark's Community Center -- History.
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St. Mark's Community Center. |
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Women in church work -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History.
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Women in church work. |
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Louisiana -- New Orleans. |
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Civil rights -- Religious aspects -- Methodist Church -- History.
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Civil rights -- Religious aspects -- Methodist Church. |
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Social gospel -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History.
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Social gospel. |
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New Orleans (La.) -- Church history.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Blue, Ellen. St. Mark's and the Social Gospel : Methodist Women and Civil Rights in New Orleans, 1895-1965. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©2011 9781572338210 |
| ISBN |
9781572338241 (electronic book) |
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1572338245 (electronic book) |
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1280125020 |
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9781280125027 |
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9781572338210 (hardcover) |
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1572338210 (hardcover) |
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