An Inventory of the Charles S. Braden papers

Bridwell Library, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University January 2, 2020 revision

Creator: Braden, Charles Samuel

Title: Charles S. Braden papers

Abstract: This collection comprises ministerial, teaching, and family papers, published and unpublished writings, and data on world religions, , , religious sects, and cults. Charles S. Braden (1887-1970) was a Methodist minister, missionary, author, and educator who taught in the department of Religion and Literature of Religions at Northwestern University between 1926 and 1954.

Extent: 11 boxes (5.5 linear feet and oversize) [Boxes 1765A-1769B, OV].

Collection ID: BLA 10

Arrangement of the collection: The collection is arranged in three series: Series 1: Office records, 1908-1970 Series 2: Writings, 1933-1964 Series 3: Religion Research Files, 1906-1960

Biographical notes: Dr. Charles S. Braden was the author of the 1963 critical history Spirits in Rebellion: The Rise and Development of New Thought.

Folder-level Inventory

Series 1: Office records, 1908-1970 Documents from his ministry, his work as a teacher and public speaker. This series also includes personal and family materials.

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Extent: 23 files

Box File Contents 1765A 01 Conscription, nonviolence, and war, 1924-1965 02-03 Correspondence, 1923-1955 04 Correspondence with Bridwell Library, 1959-1967 05 Course bibliographies, circa 1935-1955 06 Lamentations on Christmas script by Paul Arthur Schlipp, 1945 07 Ministry in Chile, 1916-1919 08 Ministry in Chile, 1921-1925 09 Ministry in Chile – Committee on Cooperation in Latin America, 1916-1922 10 Ministry in Chile – Committee on Cooperation in Latin America, 1918-1926 11 Ministry in Chile – Committee on Cooperation in Latin America, 1924-1925 12 Ministry in Chile – Committee on Cooperation in Latin America, 1924-1930 13 Religion courses enrollment survey, 1946 14 Retirement, 1953-1954 15 Self-portrait, circa 1950s 16 Speech notes, 1936-1951

1765B 01-03 Speaking engagement correspondence and publicity, 1952-1956 04 Student Volunteer Movement and YMCA, 1908-1936 05 Temperance and prohibition, 1933-1935 06 World Service Commission, Methodist Episcopal Church, circa 1925-1939

OV 01 Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals Clipsheets - oversize, 1929-1933 02 Diplomas – Braden family, 1904-1926

Series 2: Writings, 1933-1964 Lectures, articles, and books

Extent: 29 files

Box File Contents 1766A 01-02 Bishop A. Frank Smith, 1961- 1964 03 The Christian Encounter with World Religions, 04 Christian Science and Philosophy (book review), 1949 April 05-08 Christian Science Today, 1955

1766B 01-04 Christian Science Today, 1955 05 and the Non-Christian Religions in the Contemporary Era, 1948 06 College Teaching as a Vocation, circa 1940

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07 Edwin Arnold – Poet and Orientalist, 1935 08 In Search for New Standards in Modern America: The Contribution of Religion, circa 1955 09-11 The Literary Harvest of a Half-Century, 1967 1767A 01 Modern Tendencies in World Religions, 1933 02 The Moslem State, circa 1955 03 The Novelist Discovers the Orient, 1948 04 Religion in a Machine Age, circa 1950 05-06 The Scripture of Mankind – An Introduction, 1951 07 Study of Spiritual Healing in the Churches, 1954 Triumph and Tragedy (Matthew 21:5), 1956 08 Varieties of American Religion, 1936 09 War, Communism and the World Religions, 1953 10 Why People Are Religious – A Study in Religious Motivation, 1947

Series 3: Religion Research Files, 1906-1960 Topical file folders of notes on and printed materials about the many Christian sects, world religions, and cults that Braden studied. Some folders contain correspondence with leaders or representatives of the listed groups. Materials of special note are the fourteen folders on Christian Science and seven folders on .

Extent: 78 folders

Box File Contents 1767B 01 S. A. Ackley, The Covenant Voice, The Kingdom Gospel Institute, 1941-1950 02 Anglo-Israelism, Anglo-Saxon Federation of America, Destiny Publishers, 1933-1948 03 Aramaic Bible Society, circa 1950 04 Assemblies of Yahwey, Dearborn, Michigan, 1944 05 Sufi M. R. Bengalee, the Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam, 1943-1956 06 James E. Bennett, The Lawsuit Against the Bible, circa 1940 07 Biosophy, Frederick Kettner, circa 1950 08 Buddhism, circa 1940 09 Catholicism / Anti-Catholicism, 1908-1927 10 China, 1922-1927

1768A 01 Christian Science, 1931-1954 02 Christian Science, 1950-1954 03 Christian Science – Akron Third Church controversy, 1955-1956 04 Christian Science – Gilbert C. Carpenter, 1932-1952 05 Christian Science – George Channing, 1952-1953 06 Christian Science – Committee on Publication for Illinois, 1945-1947 07 Christian Science – Arthur B. Corey, 1941-1953 08 Christian Science – Arthur B. Corey, 1945-1952

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09 Christian Science – Dissent, 1933-1956 10-11 Christian Science – Dissent questionnaire, 1940-1953 12 Christian Science – John V. Dittemore, 1937-1956

1768B 01 Christian Science – Hugh A. Studdert Kennedy, 1940-1947 02 Christian Science – Margaret Laird, 1948-1953 03 Christian Science – Schaff-Herzog encyclopedia, 1954-1955 04 Christianity – Reinhold Niebuhr article, 1927 05 Comparative religion, 1906-1928 06 Glenn Clark, United Prayer Tower, 1951 07 Cults and sects, 1943-1944 08 Cults and sects, 1944-1948 09 Cults and sects, 1951-1957 10 Bruce Curry, 1935 11 M. J. Divine (Father Divine), 1945-1953 12 John Alexander Dowie, Christian Catholic Church, 1958-1960 13 Sherwood Eddy, 1927 14 Station E-G-Y-P-T, short story by E. Spickard, not dated 15 Hoxie Neale Fairchild, 1935 16 House of David, Benton Harbor, Michigan, 1931-1946 17 “ I Am” Movement, Guy M. Ballard, 1939-1947 18 India, 1925-1941

1769A 01 Japan, 1925-1957 02 Jehovah’s Witness, 1945-1946 03 Jesus Christ, 1906-1941 04 Jewish Science, 1944 05 , circa 1930 06-07 The Liberal Catholic Church, Bishop Edward M. Matthews, 1950-1954 08 Aimee Semple McPherson, International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, 1958 09 Mexico, 1926-1927 10 Missiology, 1930-1932 11 Moral Re-Armament, Frank N. D. Buchman, 1958 12 Mormonism, The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 1946-1950 13 Otto T. Nall, World Methodism issue of The Christian Advocate, 1953 14 New Thought, 1943-1944 15 Order of the Cross, 1936-1947 16 Psychiana, Frank B. Robinson, 1941-1944 17 Psychiana, Frank B. Robinson, 1941-1946 18 Psychiana, Frank B. Robinson, 1944

1769B 01 Psychiana, Frank B. Robinson, 1944-1946 02 Psychiana, Frank B. Robinson, and College of Divine Metaphysics, 1943-1951 03 Psychiana – Evanston, Illinois, 1944

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04 Pyramidology – Adam Rutherford, circa 1940 05 Rosicurianism, 1946-1950 06 Salvation Army, 1946 07 Edward L. Schaub, Recent Interpretations of Religion in American and Great Britain, 1928 08 Source Teachings Society, M. Benzenberg Mayer, 1933-1950 09 Spiritual healing – The Divine Healer: An Exposition of Scripture Teaching on Miraculous Healings, Covenant Publishing Company, 1923 10 Spiritualism, 1928-1951 11 Spiritualism, 1945-1948 12 Spiritualist Episcopal Church, 1940s 13 Swedenborgian Church, 1942 14 Symposium, a poem by Otis Peabody Swift, circa 1940 15 Theosophy, 1943-1949 16 Unity School of Christianity, 1935-1952

OV 03 John Alexander Dowie, Christian Catholic Church: The Theocrat and Leaves of Healing, 1945-1959 04 House of David, Shiloh’s Messenger of Wisdom – oversize, 1940s 05 Psychiana - oversize, 1942-1943 06 T. L. Rydbeck study chart of the revelation of Jesus Christ drawn by W. Swanson, circa 1940

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